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14 hours ago · History Early coverage 1964 Summer Olympics. NBC televised its first Olympic Games in 1964, when it broadcast that year's Summer Olympics from Tokyo.The network originally had intended to film the events from Tokyo but the Syncom team had a 1-hour test on the Syncom 3 satellite and it was discovered that it can transmit up to two hours from the US to Japan as with signals from the West Coast.
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14 hours ago · Matt Holland – BBC Radio 5 Live 2006, RTÉ Sport 2010, BBC Sport 2011–2016, Sky Sports 2010–2011, ESPN UK 2010–2011, Talksport 2011–present; Ray Houghton – talkSport 2001–present, RTÉ Sport 2001–present, Channel 5 2002–2004, Sky Sports 2010–present; Don Howe – Channel 4 1993–2002
14 hours ago · 21 February – Efeso Collins, politician, Auckland Councillor (2016–2022), Green list MP (since 2023) (born c. 1974). 24 February Bill Alington, architect (Wellington High School, Alington House) (born 1929). Lesley Shand, conservationist (born 1942). 26 February – Charlie Crofts, Māori leader (born 1943).
14 hours ago · These criteria also apply to national or other restricted records and also to performances submitted as qualifying marks for eligibility to compete in major events such as the Olympic Games. The criteria include: David Rudisha, en route to setting his 800m world record of 1:40.91 at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
14 hours ago · David Robinson was a member of the United States national team at the 1986 FIBA World Championship, 1987 Pan American Games, 1988 Summer Olympics, 1992 Summer Olympics, and 1996 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal at all tournaments except the 1987 Pan Am Games, where he won a silver medal, and the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze ...
14 hours ago · History of women at the Olympics 1900 Charlotte Cooper. The first modern Olympic Games to feature female athletes was the 1900 Games in Paris. Hélène de Pourtalès of Switzerland became the first woman to compete at the Olympic Games and became the first female Olympic champion, as a member of the winning team in the first 1 to 2 ton sailing event on May 22, 1900.
14 hours ago · The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2016. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference. July 2016 1. Yves Bonnefoy, 93, French poet.
