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Sports Reference, LLC is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pro-Football-Reference.com for American football, and FBref.com for association football (soccer). Between 2008 and 2020, Sports Reference also provided pages for Olympic Games and its competitors.
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- ↑ "Richard Villepontoux". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
- ↑ "Richard Villepontoux Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
