单词 | goodwill games team |
释义 | > as lemmasGoodwill Games team Goodwill Games n. an international sports competition, usually held at four-yearly intervals in different countries and venues; frequently attributive, as Goodwill Games team, Goodwill Games event, etc. A proprietary name in the United States.The Goodwill Games were founded in response to international political tensions surrounding the Olympic Games in the early 1980s, and first took place in Moscow, Russia in 1986; the final Goodwill Games took place 2001. ΚΠ 1985 N.Y. Times 1 June 10/4 Ted Turner..has reportedly asked Soviet approval for a binational ‘Goodwill Games’, which would be held in non-Olympic years at sites alternating between the United States and the Soviet Union. 1990 Washington Post 13 July f3/1 She fell off the balance beam at the U.S. nationals and didn't make the Goodwill Games team. 1995 D. L. Porter Afr.-Amer. Sports Greats 227 Edwin..triumphed in the 1986 Goodwill Games at Moscow, Russia. 2001 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 5 Sept. 74 Benita Willis will add a red ribbon against drugs in sport to her attire after running fourth in the Goodwill Games event last night. < as lemmas |
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