New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics gold medal won by the New Zealand men's team in 1976 remains the only Olympic field hockey medal won by a New Zealand team. New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics New Zealand competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The New Zealand Olympic Committee was represented by 80 athletes, 71 men and 9 women, and 29 officials. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was wrestler David Aspin. In protest at a tour of South Africa by the All Blacks team early in the year, Congo's official Jean Claude Ganga led a boycott of 28 African
1980 South Africa rugby union tour of South America South Africans from visiting Argentina in protest at the South African government's apartheid policies and the internationals were re-arranged for Uruguay and Chile. The South American side was composed entirely of Argentine players. South Africa's touring party included Errol Tobias, the first non-white player to represent the Springboks. 1980 South Africa rugby union tour of South America The 1980 South Africa rugby union tour of South America was a series of six matches played by the South Africa national rugby union team (the Springboks) in Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile in October 1980. The South Africa team won all six of