athletic event
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Critics have also voiced concern that the quadrennial athletic event could displace low-income tenants, particularly those who live near Olympic venues.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025
For example, the report found 141 searches for communications of racial justice protesters, 1,600 Americans traveling to or returning from a foreign country, and 2,000 for information about people at an athletic event.
From Washington Times • Dec. 5, 2023
Notre Dame improved to 11-0 all-time in its Shamrock Series, in front of an announced gathering of 62,742, the largest crowd for a college athletic event in Nevada history.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2022
As anyone who has ever felt a rush before a big test, speech, or athletic event can attest, the effects of the sympathetic nervous system are quite pervasive.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The first collegiate crew race in America—and in fact the first American intercollegiate athletic event of any kind—took place between Harvard and Yale in 1852, on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
