Soccer

The United States did not enjoy much any success in France, losing its opening game 2-0 to Germany in Paris and its last game 1-0 to Yugoslavia in Nantes.

But it was the Americans’ second game, a 2-1 loss in Lyon on June 21, that drew the most headlines. In a retrospective on the match 20 years later, The Guardian referred to it as “the most politically charged match in World Cup history” given the fraught relationship between the two countries’ governments over the previous two decades. Fortunately, the match went off without incident, with the Americans’ opponents presenting each player with a white rose before kickoff in a gesture of peace.

Name the Americans’ opponents that day.

Iran

Racing & Combat

In the twelfth round of a 1952 boxing bout televised live on ABC, announcer Don Dunphy remarked, “this is probably the tamest round of the entire fight.” Within moments, one of the fighters drove the other into the ropes and battered him with 29 straight punches that sent him into a coma from which he’d die ten days later. Name either fighter in this bout.

Benny Paret, Emile Griffith

Country Club

Monica Seles's only appearance in a Wimbledon final was her loss to Steffi Graf in what year during her dominant stretch on other surfaces? This was also the last year before she was sidelined by an atrocious stabbing incident. (To stay on theme, leave out the 19 part.)

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