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1984 Los Angeles Olympics: Mens 800m Heats

Athletics - 1984 Los Angeles Olympics - Men's 800 metres Quarter-Finals Heat One
Great Britain's Peter Elliott (#365), with Senegal's Babacar Niang (#754) and Kenya's Edwin Koech (#584), in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Elliott qualified for the semi-final but had to withdraw due to injury, while Koach reached the final, finishing 6th

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The womens 3000m final at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

Athletics - 1984 Los Angeles Olympics - Women's 3000 metres Final
Left to right: Great Britain's Wendy Sly (#175), Great Britain's Zola Budd (#151), Romania's Maricica Puica (#316) the USA's Mary Decker (#373) in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Puica won gold and Sly silver, while Budd was 7th and Decker failed to finish after a collision with the latter

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BOA official Dick Palmer carries the Olympic flag for Great Britain during the Opening Ceremony of the 1980 Moscow Olympics

Athletics - 1980 Moscow Olympics - Opening Ceremony
British Olympic Association (BOA) General Secretary Dick Palmer carries the Olympic flag for Great Britain in the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow, USSR.
No British athletes took part and the Union Jack was not used in the ceremony in acknowledgment of the American-led boycott of the Games by 65 countries in response to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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