Template:Did you know nominations/Zimbabwe women's national field hockey team at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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The result was: promoted by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:24, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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Zimbabwe women's national field hockey team at the 1980 Summer Olympics[edit]
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- ... 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 ... " — LlywelynII 13:56, 24 February 2014 (UTC)