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Argentina was dominating the tournament crushing France 4-1, Mexico 6-3, and Chile 3-1. but coincidentally they ended up losing the finals to Uruguay which also beat them in the 1928 Olympics.
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Argentina had no luck playing at home losing to Britain 23-0 but once they finally played away against Chile, they won 29-0! Also the second match was won by a similar margin.
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In the summer of 1936 at Berlin, Argentine won the gold medal for polo. Polo involves people on horses hitting ball with mallets throgh goals.
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Pato, known everywhere else as horseball, involves throwing a duck through a hoop while two teams are on horseback. WHAT AN AMAZING SPORT.
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Delfo Cabrera wins the gold medal in a decathalon.
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Argentina's Basketball team wins the FIBA Basketball World Cup.
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After several matches which resulted in astonishing wins such as 62-0 against Uruguay, and 72-0 against a brazilian team they moved on to face tougher cometition. Argentina played Ireland XV and although they lost both games, they celebrated because they've never faced such tough competition.
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Golfers Roberto DeVicenzo and Ángel Cabrera win the 1953 Canada Cup.
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Juan Peron, the president of Argentina at that time, named Pato as their national sport.
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The reason for the liberating revolution to do this, was the government was using sports as a instrument of political propaganda, corrupting their true values and significance.
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they did this because they wanted to erase everything Juan Peron had anything to do with and they knew he was misusing sports.
