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Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo 2020): men's and women's 12-team tournaments at Oi Hockey Stadium, 24 July to 6 August 2021 after COVID-19 postponement; Belgium and Netherlands won gold, India and Great Britain bronze.
Field hockey at the 2026 Asian Games – Women's tournament
Women's field hockey tournament at the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026, 19 September to 4 October. India beat China 1–0 for gold, its first since 1982; Japan took bronze; Deepika led scoring with 21 goals.
Field hockey at the Summer Olympics
Field hockey at the Summer Olympics, also called Olympic hockey tournament, men's event since 1908 London and women's since Moscow 1980; 12 teams each, India leads with 8 men's golds, Netherlands dominant in women's hockey.
Field hockey in India
Field hockey in India: eight men's Olympic golds 1928–1980, 1975 World Cup, governed by Hockey India (2009), Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 bronzes, revived Hockey India League, Odisha patronage.
Field hockey pitch
Field hockey pitch: the FIH-standard 91.40 m × 55.00 m outdoor playing surface with 75 mm white lines, 23 m lines, circles, and penalty spots; usually water-based synthetic turf since Montreal 1976.
Field lacrosse
Field lacrosse is the outdoor full-field form of lacrosse: men's is full-contact 10-a-side on a 110 x 60 yard field (Beers rules, 1867); women's is 12-a-side on 120 x 70 yards, with its own 1890s rules.
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams (1989): Phil Alden Robinson fantasy-drama adapted from W. P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, starring Kevin Costner, Best Picture nominee, filmed in Dyersville, Iowa, later home of MLB at Field of Dreams games.
Field of Dreams (Dubuque County, Iowa)
Field of Dreams Movie Site, Dyersville, Dubuque County, Iowa: the real 1989 film diamond and farmhouse, now a Dyersville Events nonprofit attraction hosting youth tournaments and MLB games in 2021, 2022, and 2026.
Fielding H. Yost
Fielding H. Yost (1871–1946), 'Hurry Up' Yost, Michigan Wolverines football coach 1901–26 and athletic director 1921–41; Point-a-Minute teams went 55-1-1, won six national titles, built Michigan Stadium.
Fighting in ice hockey
Fighting in ice hockey: bare-fisted combat between players, penalized with a 5-minute major in the NHL but a game misconduct (ejection) under IIHF and most amateur rules; rates have declined sharply since a 1987 peak.
Fiji national rugby union team
The Fiji national rugby union team, nicknamed the Flying Fijians, is Fiji's men's rugby union team, which has reached the World Cup quarterfinals three times.
Filip Forsberg
Filip Forsberg is a Swedish professional ice hockey left wing for the Nashville Predators. Drafted 11th overall by Washington in 2012, he became Nashville's franchise leader in goals.
Finland men's national ice hockey team
Finland men's national ice hockey team, Leijonat (Lions), Finland's IIHF World Championship and Olympic team since 1928. Five world titles (1995, 2011, 2019, 2022, 2026) and first Olympic gold at Beijing 2022.
Finn Russell
Finn Russell (born 1992, Stirling) is a Scottish rugby union fly-half for Bath Rugby and Scotland, known for inventive passing and playing flat to the defensive line.
FirstBank Stadium
FirstBank Stadium, formerly Dudley Field and Vanderbilt Stadium, is Vanderbilt University's on-campus football stadium in Nashville, opened October 14, 1922 as the South's first football-only stadium, rebuilt in 1981, and renamed in 2022.
FIVB Men's Volleyball World Cup
FIVB Men's Volleyball World Cup: from 2027 the renamed FIVB Volleyball World Championship, 32 teams, biennial, men hosted by Poland, Olympic qualifier for LA28; earlier separate World Cup ran 1965-2019.
FIVB Senior World Rankings
FIVB Senior World Rankings: official FIVB world rankings of senior men's and women's national volleyball teams, launched 1 February 2020 on a probabilistic points model covering 222 teams per gender, used for seeding and Olympic qualification.
FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship
Biennial FIVB world championship for under-17 boys' national volleyball teams, first held in Sofia 2024 (Italy champions) and won by unbeaten Iran at the 2026 Doha edition.
FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship
FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship, biennial FIVB world tournament for girls' under-17 national volleyball teams since 2024; China won the inaugural Lima 2024 edition and the USA the expanded 24-team 2026 edition in Chile.
FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup
FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup: name of the FIVB men's tournament held 1965-2019 (first edition in Poland, 2023 in Japan) and, from 2027, the renamed Volleyball World Championship, a 32-team event in Poland awarding three LA 2028 Olympic berths.
FIVB Women's Volleyball World Cup
FIVB Women's Volleyball World Cup: women's national-team volleyball tournament, first held 1973 in Uruguay, hosted by Japan 1977-2019; from 2027 the renamed World Championship, 32 teams, USA/Canada hosts, LA28 qualifier.
Five-pin bowling
Five-pin bowling, a Canadian bowling variant invented by Tommy Ryan in Toronto in 1909, uses five valued pins (2-3-5-3-2 count), a small 3.5-pound ball, three balls per frame, and a 450 perfect game.
Flag football
Flag football: non-contact American football where defenders pull a flag belt to stop the ball carrier. Played 5-a-side in NFL Flag; over 20 million players in 100 countries; Olympic debut at LA 2028.
Flagrant foul
Flagrant foul: basketball penalty for unnecessary (Flagrant 1) or unnecessary and excessive (Flagrant 2) contact; NBA awards two free throws plus possession, ejects on Flagrant 2 or second flagrant.
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta (born 1982, Brindisi) is an Italian former tennis player, 2015 US Open singles champion and first Italian woman to win it, retiring at the ceremony; 2011 Australian Open doubles winner, doubles No. 1, four Fed Cups.
Flemming Davanger
Flemming Davanger (born 1963, Bergen) is a Norwegian curler, Olympic gold medalist at Salt Lake City 2002 playing second for Pål Trulsen's rink; also 1992 demonstration silver, 2005 European champion, three World Championship medals.
Fletcher Cox
Fletcher Cox, born 1990 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, is a retired NFL defensive tackle who spent all 12 seasons (2012-2023) with the Philadelphia Eagles, earning six Pro Bowls, one first-team All-Pro, and a Super Bowl LII title.
Flip Saunders
Flip Saunders (Philip Saunders, 1955-2015) was an NBA head coach of the Timberwolves, Pistons, and Wizards, 654-592 career record, 2004 Western Conference Finals, died of Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Floorball
Floorball, also called innebandy, salibandy, or unihockey, is an indoor hockey-style sport from 1970s Sweden with five field players and a stickless goalkeeper, governed by the IFF since 1986 and played in over 80 countries.
Florent van Aubel
Florent van Aubel (born 1991, Ghent), nicknamed "the magician", is a Belgian field hockey attacker, shirt number 8, four-time Olympian with the Red Lions: silver Rio 2016, gold Tokyo 2020, retired from international hockey after Paris 2024.