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Liar's dice
Liar's Dice, also called Dudo, Perudo, Cacho, or Bluff, is a bluffing dice game for 2-6 players with five hidden dice each, wild ones, and challenge calls where the loser loses a die; Inca-era origin, Spiel des Jahres 1993.
Libby Trickett
Libby Trickett (Lisbeth Constance Trickett, OAM, née Lenton, born 1985), Australian swimmer; four Olympic golds across Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012; multiple 100m freestyle world record holder.
Liberec
Liberec football is represented by FC Slovan Liberec, founded 1958, three-time Czech champion (2002, 2006, 2012) and first non-Prague titleholder, playing at Stadion u Nisy.
Liberia national football team
Liberia national football team, the Lone Star, governed by the Liberia Football Association (FIFA member since 1962); AFCON 1996 and 2002 qualifiers, no World Cup appearance; home ground Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex, Monrovia; George Weah's Weah XI era and long post-2002 AFCON drought.
Libero Marchini
Libero Turiddu Marchini (Turiddu), Italian football midfielder, 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist who played all four matches; clubs included Fiorentina, Genoa, Lucchese, Lazio, Torino; anti-fascist anarchist.
Libertalia
Libertalia (Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest) is Paolo Mori's 2012 pirate board game for 2–6 players, three voyages of simultaneous character-card play for loot and doubloons; revised by Stonemaier Games in 2022 with 40 characters and a reputation tiebreaker system.
Liberty Flames football
Liberty Flames football: Liberty University's FBS college football team, first fielded 1973 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Eight Big South titles, FBS independent 2018-2022, Conference USA member since 2023, 2023 Fiesta Bowl.
Libor Prochazka
Libor Procházka (born 1974, Vlašim) is a Czech ice hockey defenseman, 1998 Nagano Olympic gold medalist and 1999 world champion with Czech Republic; also bronzes 1997, 1998; drafted by St. Louis Blues 1993.
Libor Radimec
Libor Radimec, born 1950 in Ostrava, Czech defender and sweeper; Olympic football gold with Czechoslovakia at Moscow 1980, three league titles and 212 games with Baník Ostrava, 17 caps, later Austria Wien and First Vienna.
Library of Ruina
Library of Ruina is a 2021 turn-based deckbuilding RPG by ProjectMoon, sequel to Lobotomy Corporation, where librarians fight invited guests in card-and-dice receptions and defeated guests become books.
Libro de los juegos
Libro de los juegos (Libro del axedrez, dados e tablas), illuminated Castilian manuscript of 1283 commissioned by Alfonso X, covering chess, dice, tables, and alquerque; kept at El Escorial, Ms T-I-6.
Libuse Macounova
Libuše Macounová, born 1946, Czechoslovak 400 m sprinter of Spartak Ústí nad Labem; silver and bronze at the 1966 European Indoor Games in Dortmund, silver relay medal in Madrid 1968, and three national 400 m titles.
Libyan olympic committee
Libyan Olympic Committee (اللجنة الاولمبية الليبية, LOC), Libya's National Olympic Committee, founded 1962, IOC-recognized 1963. Summer Games only since 1968, no medal, HQ Tripoli, president Jamal Al-Zarrug since 2014.
Lichess
Lichess (lichess.org) is a free, open-source, donation-funded online chess server founded in 2010 by Thibault Duplessis, written in Scala, run as a French nonprofit, with no ads or paid features, over five million daily games, and a CC0 game database.
Lida Howell
Lida Howell (Matilda Scott Howell, 1859–1938/39), American archer of the Cincinnati Archers; won all three women's archery golds at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics and 17 of 20 US national championships, 1883–1907.
Lidewij Welten
Lidewij "Lied" Welten, Dutch field hockey attacker born 1990 in Eindhoven; three Olympic golds (2008, 2012, 2020), silver 2016, three world titles, 247 caps, 95 goals, FIH World Player of the Year 2015, retired May 2024.
Lidia Domolky Sakovics
Lidia Domolky Sakovics (Lídia Dömölky-Sákovics, Sákovicsné Dömölky Lídia), Hungarian foil fencer born 1936 in Budapest; 1964 Olympic team foil champion, 1960 and 1968 silver medalist, 1955 individual world champion, later coach, journalist, and 2025 Nemzet Sportolója.
Lidia Freiberg
Lidia Freiberg (Лидия Фрейберг), Soviet Leningrad middle-distance runner of the 1930s; held USSR 800m records (2:22.8, 2:22.4), ran 1000m in 3:03.6, and set a pre-ratification 1500m world best of 5:02.0 in 1936.
Lidiya Kalinina Ivanova
Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova (Лидия Калинина-Иванова), born 1937, Soviet artistic gymnast; two Olympic team golds (Melbourne 1956, Rome 1960) and one bronze; later a coach and judge at six Olympics.
Lidiya Sichenikova
Lidiya Sichenikova (Лідія Січенікова), Ukrainian recurve archer born 1993 in Chernivtsi; three Olympics (2012, 2016, 2020), 2010 Youth Olympics, 2016 European team champion, 2014 World Indoor team gold.
Lidiya Skoblikova
Lidiya Skoblikova (Лидия Павловна Скобликова), Soviet speed skater born 1939 in Zlatoust; six Olympic golds (1960, 1964), first woman to sweep all four events at one Games, nicknamed Ural Lightning.
Liechtenstein national football team
Liechtenstein men's national football team (Liechtensteiner Fussballverband), UEFA/FIFA member since 1974; debuted 1982, first win 1998 vs Azerbaijan, seven competitive wins, only UEFA member without a domestic league.
Liechtenstein olympic committee
Liechtenstein Olympic Committee (LOC), Liechtensteinisches Olympisches Komitee: National Olympic Committee founded 1935, based in Schaan; president Stefan Marxer, secretary general Beat Wachter; runs Olympic missions, athlete funding squads, and 50% athlete employment.
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Liège–Bastogne–Liège, La Doyenne, is Belgium's oldest Monument one-day cycling race, first run in 1892. A 260 km Ardennes out-and-back with climbs like La Redoute; record five wins by Eddy Merckx, four by Pogačar.
Lieke Klaver
Lieke Klaver (born 1998, Velsen) is a Dutch 400 m sprinter; Olympic mixed 4x400m relay gold and women's relay silver 2024, world 4x400m champion 2023, European indoor 400m champion 2025, PB 49.58.
Lieke Martens
Lieke Martens van Leer (born 1992, Nieuw-Bergen) is a retired Dutch forward; EURO 2017 winner and player of the tournament, The Best FIFA Women's Player 2017, Barcelona 2017–2022 (158 matches, 73 goals, 2021 Champions League), PSG 2022–2025, 160 Netherlands caps.
Lielow
Lielow is a 2021 two-player abstract strategy game by Michael Amundsen and Alek Erickson, played on a chessboard where stacks grow by moving and the uniquely tallest stack is the king; capture it to win.
Lierse SK (1906)
Lierse SK (Koninklijke Lierse Sportkring), Belgian football club founded in Lier in 1906; four titles (1932, 1942, 1960, 1997), two cups; bankrupt 2018, continued as Lierse Kempenzonen, renamed Lierse SK in 2024.
Liesel Westermann
Liesel Westermann (Lieselotte Westermann-Krieg), born 1944, West German discus thrower; 1968 Olympic silver medallist, first woman over 60 m and 200 feet, four discus world records (61.26-63.96 m).
Liesl Perkaus
Liesl Perkaus (Elisabeth Perkaus-Richter, 1905-1987), Austrian track and field athlete, Danubia Wien club, sixth in discus at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and shot put bronze medalist at the 1930 Women's World Games.