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Zimbabwe women's national field hockey team at the 1980 Summer Olympics

 * ... that Zimbabwe's gold-winning field hockey team from the 1980 Olympics (pictured) were promised an ox each by the Prime Minister's wife, but got packages of meat instead?
 * ALT1:... that at the 1980 Summer Olympics, Zimbabwe won (pictured) the first ever gold medal for women's field hockey?
 * ALT2:... that at the 1980 Summer Olympics, Zimbabwe won (pictured) the first ever gold medal for women's field hockey with an all-white team?
 * ALT3:... that Zimbabwe's all-white field hockey team at the 1980 Olympics (pictured) flew to the Games on a plane usually used for freighting meat, and won gold?
 * ALT4:... that Zimbabwe's all-white field hockey team at the 1980 Olympics (pictured) won gold having never played on artificial turf before?
 * ALT5:... that Zimbabwe's all-white field hockey team at the 1980 Olympics (pictured) won gold having had less than a month to prepare?
 * Reviewed: Sophie Turner Laing
 * Comment: Lot of potential here for a really good hook in my opinion

Moved to mainspace by Cliftonian (talk). Self nominated at 20:31, 21 February 2014 (UTC).


 * Article new at time of nomination and length = 10728 characters
 * Ran all online sources through duplication detector. Article written in a neutral tone with inline citations.
 * No disambiguation links and no issues with external links.
 * Hook is interesting and length is adequate. Reviewer personally prefers the first suggested hook. Nice work.

Hmlarson (talk) 20:41, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Also prefer first hook but would emend it to say " ... gold-winning women's ... " — Llywelyn II   13:56, 24 February 2014 (UTC)