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| 1980 |
| | | US basketball champion Magic Johnson begins 12 years with the Los Angeles Lakers | |
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| 1981 |
| | | British snooker player Steve Davis wins the first of six world championship titles | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold to Barcelona for a new record fee of about £3 million, almost double the highest previous figure | |
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| 1984 |
| | | British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean earn a perfect score for their Bolero programme in the Sarajevo winter Olympics | |
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| 1984 |
| | | English athlete Daley Thompson sets an Olympic and world record in the decathlon at the Los Angeles Olympics | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Diego Maradona is sold to Napoli for a new record fee of about £5 million, two years after being sold to Barcelona for £3 million | |
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| 1984 |
| | | US sprinter and long-jumper Carl Lewis wins four gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Australian bowler Dennis Lillee's total of 351 Test wickets sets a new record | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Ian Botham is the first player to achieve the double triple, with a total of more than 3000 runs and 300 wickets in Test cricket | |
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| 1985 |
| | | 17-year-old German tennis-player Boris Becker becomes the youngest ever to win the men's singles at Wimbledon | |
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