71.   The event begins Friday.

72.   The first events begin Thursday, with boxing, basketball, cycling, volleyball, and modern pentathlon on the schedule.

73.   The International Cycling Union will hold a congress before the road events begin on Tuesday.

74.   The individual three-day event will begin with dressage Tuesday afternoon.

75.   The pairs event begins Monday evening with the short program, worth one-third the score.

76.   The pairs events begins Monday evening with the short program, worth one-third the score.

77.   The separate individual three-day event will begin with dressage on Tuesday afternoon.

78.   The track and field events then began.

79.   Yushiro Yagi, head of the Japanese delegation to the games, had promised before the team event began that Japan would win.

80.   Events also began early to avoid the hottest times of day.