2008 in sports, the Glossary

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1. 414 relations: AFC East, Affliction: Banned, AIK Innebandy, Alamodome, Alberto Contador, Aliaksandr Lisouski, Amalie Arena, Amateur radio direction finding, American football, Ana Ivanovic, Andy Murray, Anterior cruciate ligament injury, Anzac Test, Archery, Arnaud Tournant, Association football, Australia national rugby league team, Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century, Australian rules football, Bad Belzig, BCS National Championship Game, Bernard Hopkins, Bernard Hopkins vs. Joe Calzaghe, Big Brown (horse), Billy Slater, Boston Celtics, Bowls, Boxing, Bradley Wiggins, Breeders' Cup Classic, Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, Breeders' Cup Distaff, Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf, Breeders' Cup Juvenile, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, Breeders' Cup Mile, Breeders' Cup Sprint, Breeders' Cup Turf, Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, Breeders' Stakes, Budapest Blax Lacrosse, Calgary Stampeders, Cameroon national football team, Canadian football, Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, Candace Parker, Carlos Sastre, ... Expand index (364 more) »

AFC East

The American Football Conference – Eastern Division or AFC East is one of the four divisions of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

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Affliction: Banned

Affliction: Banned was a mixed martial arts event co-promoted by Affliction Clothing and Adrenaline MMA.

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AIK Innebandy

AIK Innebandy (often referred to as AIK IBF or simply AIK) is a Swedish floorball club and a department of AIK.

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Alamodome

The Alamodome is a 64,000-seat domed indoor multi-purpose stadium in San Antonio, Texas.

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Alberto Contador

Alberto Contador Velasco (born 6 December 1982) is a Spanish former professional cyclist.

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Aliaksandr Lisouski

Aliaksandr Lisouski (born November 13, 1985) is a Belarusian racing cyclist.

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Amalie Arena

Amalie Arena (officially stylized as AMALIE Arena) is a multipurpose arena in Tampa, Florida, that has been used for ice hockey, basketball, arena football, concerts, and other events.

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Amateur radio direction finding

Amateur radio direction finding (ARDF, also known as radio orienteering, radio fox hunting and radiosport) is an amateur racing sport that combines radio direction finding with the map and compass skills of orienteering.

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Ana Ivanovic

Ana Schweinsteiger (née Ivanović; born 6 November 1987) is a Serbian former world No. 1 tennis player.

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Andy Murray

Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player.

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Anterior cruciate ligament injury

An anterior cruciate ligament injury occurs when the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is either stretched, partially torn, or completely torn.

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Anzac Test

The Anzac Test is an annual rugby league football test match played between Australia and New Zealand for the Bill Kelly Memorial Trophy.

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Archery

Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.

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Arnaud Tournant

Arnaud Tournant (born 5 April 1978) is a French track cyclist.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Australia national rugby league team

The Australian national rugby league team, the Kangaroos, have represented Australia in senior men's rugby league football competitions since the establishment of the game in Australia in 1908.

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Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century

In late 2007, the Australian Rugby League and National Rugby League commissioned a college of 130 experts to select the 100 best rugby league players in the game's 100-year history in Australia.

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Australian rules football, also called Australian football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Bad Belzig

Bad Belzig, until 2010 Belzig, is a historic town in Brandenburg, Germany located about southwest of Berlin.

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BCS National Championship Game

The BCS National Championship Game, or BCS National Championship, was a postseason college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), first played in the 1998 college football season as one of four designated bowl games, and beginning in the 2006 season as a standalone event rotated among the host sites of the aforementioned bowls.

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Bernard Hopkins

Bernard Hopkins Jr. (born January 15, 1965) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2016.

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Bernard Hopkins vs. Joe Calzaghe

Bernard Hopkins vs.

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Big Brown (horse)

Big Brown (foaled April 10, 2005, in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2008 Kentucky Derby and 2008 Preakness Stakes and was the 2008 Champion Three-Year-Old.

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Billy Slater

William Slater (born 18 June 1983) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s.

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Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston.

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Bowls

Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.

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Bradley Wiggins

Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE (born 28 April 1980) is a British former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2016.

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Breeders' Cup Classic

The Breeders' Cup Classic is a Grade I Weight for Age thoroughbred horse race for 3-year-olds and older run at a distance of on dirt.

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Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile

The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile is a Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up.

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Breeders' Cup Distaff

The Breeders' Cup Distaff is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, three years old and up.

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Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint

The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint is a 7-furlong (1408 m) Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred fillies and mares three years old and up.

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Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf

The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on turf for fillies and mares, three years old and up.

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Breeders' Cup Juvenile

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile is a Thoroughbred horse race for 2-year-old colts and geldings raced on dirt.

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Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies is a -mile thoroughbred horse race on dirt (although the distance has varied, depending on the configuration of the host track) for two-year-old fillies run annually since 1984 at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships in early November.

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Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf is a one-mile turf stakes race for thoroughbred fillies two years old.

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Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf is an American Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old horses, run on a grass course at a distance of one mile.

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Breeders' Cup Mile

The Breeders' Cup Mile is a Grade 1 Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up, run on a grass course.

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Breeders' Cup Sprint

The Breeders' Cup Sprint is an American Weight for Age Grade I Thoroughbred horse race for horses three years old and older.

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Breeders' Cup Turf

The Breeders' Cup Turf is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race on turf for three-year-olds and up.

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Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint

The Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint is a Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up.

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Breeders' Stakes

The Breeders' Stakes is a stakes race for Thoroughbred race horses foaled in Canada, first run in 1889.

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Budapest Blax Lacrosse

The Budapest Blax Lacrosse Egyesület is the first Hungarian lacrosse team.

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Calgary Stampeders

The Calgary Stampeders are a professional Canadian football team based in Calgary, Alberta.

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The Cameroon national football team (French: Équipe du Cameroun de football), also known as the Indomitable Lions (French: les lions indomptables), represents Cameroon in men's international football.

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Canadian football, or simply football (in Canada), is a sport in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete on a field long and wide, attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's end zone.

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Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Canadian Triple Crown (branded as the OLG Canadian Triple Crown for sponsorship reasons) is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races run annually in Canada which is open to three-year-old horses foaled in Canada.

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Candace Parker

Candace Nicole Parker (born April 19, 1986), nicknamed "Ace", is an American former professional basketball player.

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Carlos Sastre

Carlos Sastre Candil (born 22 April 1975) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer and winner of the 2008 Tour de France.

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Champions Cup (floorball)

The Champions Cup is floorball tournament organized by the International Floorball Federation for the best clubs from the top four countries according to IFF World Ranking.

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Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, West London, England.

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Chris Hoy

Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy MBE (born 23 March 1976) is a former track cyclist and racing driver from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.

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Citizens Bank Park

Citizens Bank Park is a baseball stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the city's South Philadelphia Sports Complex.

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Cleveland Browns

The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland.

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Competition aerobatics

Competition aerobatics is an air sport in which ground-based judges rate the skill of pilots performing aerobatic flying.

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Comply or Die

Comply or Die (1999–2016) was a British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, owned by David Johnson.

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Conduit (horse)

Conduit (17 June 2005 – 17 June 2020) was a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.

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Conn Smythe Trophy

The Conn Smythe Trophy (Trophée Conn-Smythe) is awarded annually to the most valuable player (MVP) of his team during the National Hockey League's (NHL) Stanley Cup playoffs.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

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Curlin

Curlin (foaled March 25, 2004, in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the American Horse of the Year in both 2007 and 2008. He retired in 2008 as the highest North American money earner with over US$10.5 million accumulated. His major racing wins included the 2007 Preakness Stakes, 2007 Breeders' Cup Classic, and 2008 Dubai World Cup.

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Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles.

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Da' Tara

Da' Tara (foaled April 26, 2005) is an American thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2008 Belmont Stakes in an upset over Big Brown.

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David Díaz (boxer)

David Díaz (born June 7, 1976) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2011, and held the WBC lightweight title from 2007 to 2008.

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David Haye

David Deron Haye (born 13 October 1980) is a British former professional boxer who competed between 2002 and 2018.

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Denman (horse)

Denman (17 April 2000 – 5 June 2018) was an Irish-bred National Hunt racehorse sired by Presenting.

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Denmark men's national handball team

The Denmark men's national handball team (Denmark's national handball team) is controlled by the Danish Handball Association and represents Denmark in international matches.

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Detroit Red Wings

The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit.

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Detroit Shock

The Detroit Shock were a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

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Dinara Safina

Dinara Mubinovna Safina (Динара Мубиновна Сафина,; translit; born April 27, 1986) is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis player.

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Diving (sport)

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics.

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Docklands Stadium

Docklands Stadium, known by naming rights sponsorship as Marvel Stadium, is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the suburb of Docklands in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Donativum (horse)

Donativum is a British thoroughbred racehorse and winner of the 2008 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.

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Dream (mixed martial arts)

Dream (styled DREAM in capitals) was a Japanese mixed martial arts (MMA) organization promoted by former PRIDE FC executives and K-1 promoter Fighting and Entertainment Group.

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Dream 1

Dream 1: Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 1st Round was the inaugural event of the mixed martial arts promotion, Dream.

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Dream 2

Dream 2: Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 1st Round was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Dream.

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Dream 3

Dream 3: Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 2nd Round was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Fighting and Entertainment Group's mixed martial arts promotion DREAM.

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Dream 4

Dream 4: Middleweight Grand Prix 2008 2nd Round was a mixed martial arts event held by FEG's mixed martial arts promotion DREAM.

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Dream 5

DREAM.5 Light Weight Grandprix 2008 Final Round was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Fighting and Entertainment Group's mixed martial arts promotion DREAM.

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Dream 6

Dream 6: Middle Weight Grandprix 2008 Final Round was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Fighting and Entertainment Group's mixed martial arts promotion Dream on September 23, 2008.

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Dynamite!! 2008

Dynamite!! 2008 was the annual kickboxing and mixed martial arts event held by K-1 & DREAM on New Year's Eve, Wednesday, December 31, 2008, at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

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Ed Clancy

Edward Franklin Clancy (born 12 March 1985) is a British former professional track and road bicycle racer, who competed between 2004 and 2021.

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The Egypt national football team (منتخب مصر لكرة القدم), nicknamed "Pharaohs" (الفراعنة), represents Egypt in men's international football, and is governed by the Egyptian Football Association (EFA), the governing body of football in Egypt.

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Eisenach

Eisenach is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, located west of Erfurt, southeast of Kassel and northeast of Frankfurt.

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Eli Manning

Elisha Nelson Manning (born January 3, 1981) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons with the New York Giants.

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EliteXC: Heat

EliteXC: Heat was a mixed martial arts event held by Elite Xtreme Combat (commonly known as EliteXC) on October 4, 2008, in Sunrise, Florida, at the BankAtlantic Center.

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EliteXC: Primetime

EliteXC: Primetime was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Elite Xtreme Combat taking place on May 31, 2008 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

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EliteXC: Return of the King

EliteXC: Return of the King was a mixed martial arts event promoted by EliteXC that took place on Saturday, June 14, 2008 at the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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EliteXC: Street Certified

EliteXC: Street Certified was a mixed martial arts event promoted by EliteXC that took place on Saturday, February 16, 2008, at the BankUnited Center in Miami, Florida.

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EliteXC: Unfinished Business

EliteXC: Unfinished Business was a mixed martial arts event held by EliteXC on July 26, 2008 in Stockton, CA at Stockton Arena.

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Elland Road

Elland Road is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Championship club Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919.

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Ellen van Dijk

Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam.

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Enzo Maccarinelli

Enzo Maccarinelli (born 20 August 1980) is a retired Welsh former professional boxing world champion who competed from 1999 to 2016.

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FAI Gliding Commission

The International Gliding Commission (IGC) is the international governing body for the sport of gliding.

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Fédération Aéronautique Internationale

The (FAI; World Air Sports Federation) is the world governing body for air sports, and also stewards definitions regarding human spaceflight.

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Ferenc Tóth (pilot)

Ferenc Tóth is a Hungarian glider aerobatic pilot who won the FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships 2000, 2006 and 2008, and the FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships 2003.

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Figure skating

Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice.

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Floorball

Floorball (also known by other names) is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team.

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Fluminense FC

Fluminense Football Club is a Brazilian sports club best known for its professional football team that competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the first tier of Brazilian football, and the Carioca Championship, the state league of Rio de Janeiro.

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Forever Together (American horse)

Forever Together (foaled April 12, 2004 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse.

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Frozen Fire

Frozen Fire (born 2005) is a thoroughbred horse sired by Montjeu from the dam Flamingo Sea, who won the 2008 Irish Derby.

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The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

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Geraint Thomas

Geraint Howell Thomas, (born 25 May 1986) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam, Wales and Great Britain.

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Glider competition classes

Competition classes in gliding, as in other sports, mainly exist to ensure fairness in competition.

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Gliding

Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne.

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Goldikova

Goldikova (15 March 2005 – 5 January 2021) was a champion French Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Breeders' Cup Mile three times and was the 2010 European Horse of the Year.

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Grand Slam (rugby union)

In rugby union, a Grand Slam occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship (or its Five Nations predecessor) beats all the others during one year's competition.

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Grand Tour (cycling)

In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España.

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Grégory Baugé

Grégory Baugé (born 31 January 1985) is a French professional racing cyclist.

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Handball

Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team.

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Harlem Rocker

Harlem Rocker (foaled April 25, 2005 in Ontario) is a Grade I winning Canadian thoroughbred racehorse.

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The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Hayden Godfrey

Hayden Godfrey (born 15 December 1978 in Hokitika, New Zealand) is a cycling competitor for New Zealand.

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Henrik Zetterberg

Henrik Zetterberg (born 9 October 1980) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey forward.

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Henrythenavigator

Henrythenavigator (foaled February 28, 2005) is an American-bred and Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Hradec Králové

Hradec Králové (Königgrätz) is a city of the Czech Republic.

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Hull F.C.

Hull Football Club, commonly referred to as Hull or Hull F.C., is a professional rugby league club based in West Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Hwaseong, Gyeonggi

Hwaseong is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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Ice hockey at the Olympic Games

Ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920.

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Ice Hockey World Championships

The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The IIHF was created in 1908 while the European Championships, the precursor to the World Championships, were first held in 1910.

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IKSU

IKSU (Idrottsklubben Studenterna i Umeå) is a sports club and nonprofit organization in Umeå.

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International Fight League

The International Fight League was an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion billed as the world's first MMA league.

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Irish Derby

| The Irish Derby (Irish: Dearbaí na hÉireann) is a Group 1 flat horse race in Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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IRL Golden Boot Award

The IRL Golden Boot Award (previously Open Rugby Golden Boot Award and Rugby League World Golden Boot Award) is an annual rugby league award, presented by the International Rugby League (IRL), awarded to the best player of the calendar year.

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Japan Cup

The is one of the most prestigious horse races in Japan.

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Jelena Janković

Jelena Janković (Јелена Јанковић,; born 28 February 1985) is a Serbian former world No. 1 tennis player.

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Jennie Reed

Jennie Reed (born April 20, 1978) is a World and U.S. champion track cyclist and Olympian (2004, 2008, 2012).

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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (born 17 April 1985) is a French former professional tennis player.

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Joe Calzaghe

Joseph William Calzaghe (born 23 March 1972) is a Welsh former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008.

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Joe Calzaghe vs. Roy Jones Jr.

Joe Calzaghe vs.

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K-1

K-1 is a professional kickboxing promotion established in 1993 by karateka Kazuyoshi Ishii.

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Kévin Sireau

Kévin Sireau (born 18 April 1987) is a French professional racing cyclist.

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Kelly Pavlik

Kelly Robert Pavlik (born April 5, 1982) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2012.

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King's Plate

The King's Plate (known as the Queen's Plate from 1860 to 1901 and 1952 to 2022) is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race and the oldest continuously run race in North America, having been founded in 1860.

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Knockout

A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, as well as fighting-based video games.

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Kontinental Hockey League

The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008.

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L.D.U. Quito

Liga Deportiva Universitaria, often referred to as LDU Quito, is an Ecuadorian professional football club based in Quito.

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Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball.

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Lang Park

Lang Park, nicknamed "The Cauldron", also known as Brisbane Stadium and commercially Suncorp Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, located in the suburb of Milton.

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Leeds Rhinos

The Leeds Rhinos are a professional rugby league club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Lignano Sabbiadoro

Lignano Sabbiadoro (Lignan) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-eastern Italy.

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Lisandra Guerra

Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (born 31 October 1987, Matanzas) is a Cuban racing cyclist.

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Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles.

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LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers

The LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers (also known as the Fighting Tigers) are the athletic teams representing Louisiana State University (LSU), a state university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.

Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Club (מועדון כדורסל מכבי תל אביב), known for sponsorship reasons as Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, is a professional basketball club based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as the Garden or by its initials MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd), or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

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Manly Warringah Sea Eagles

The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches.

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Manny Pacquiao

Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao (born December17, 1978) is a Filipino politician, businessman, former professional basketball player and former professional boxer.

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Maram (horse)

Maram (February 10, 2006 – September 6, 2012 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2008 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

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Maria Sharapova

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мария Юрьевна Шарапова,; born 19 April 1987) is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis player.

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Marianne Vos

Marianne Vos (born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam.

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Mario Chalmers

Almario Vernard "Mario" Chalmers (born May 19, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Zamboanga Valientes of the ASEAN Basketball League.

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Mark Cavendish

Sir Mark Simon Cavendish (born 21 May 1985) is a Manx professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam.

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Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as The 'G, is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria.

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Melbourne Storm

The Melbourne Storm is a rugby league club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia that participates in the National Rugby League (NRL).

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Melbourne United

Melbourne United is an Australian professional basketball team based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Memphis Tigers men's basketball

The Memphis Tigers men's basketball team represents the University of Memphis in NCAA Division I men's college basketball.

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Midnight Lute

Midnight Lute (foaled May 13, 2003, in Versailles, Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Midshipman (horse)

Midshipman (foaled March 26, 2006, in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Mikael Samuelsson

Karl Mikael Samuelsson (born 23 December 1976) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey right winger and current player development coach for the Vancouver Canucks.

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Mikhail Mamistov

Mikhail Mamistov (born 26 April 1961, in Leningrad), is a Russian powered and glider aerobatic pilot.

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Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Montreal Alouettes

The Montreal Alouettes (French: Les Alouettes de Montréal) are a professional Canadian football team based in Montreal, Quebec.

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Motorsport

Motorsport(s) or motor sport(s) are sporting events, competitions and related activities that primarily involve the use of automobiles, motorcycles, motorboats and powered aircraft.

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National Basketball League (Australia)

The National Basketball League (NBL) is a men's professional basketball league in Australasia, currently composed of 10 teams: 9 in Australia and 1 in New Zealand.

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NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award

The Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award (formerly known as the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1969 NBA Finals.

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NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player

The Most Outstanding Player is awarded to one player after the conclusion of the championship game of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.

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New Approach

New Approach (foaled 18 February 2005) is a retired Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and active stallion.

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New England Patriots

The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area.

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New South Wales rugby league team

The New South Wales rugby league team has represented the Australian state of New South Wales in rugby league football since the sport's beginnings there in 1907.

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New York Giants

The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

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The New Zealand national Australian rules football team (tīmi whutupaoro Ahitereiria o Aotearoa; nicknamed the Falcons (Ngā Kāhu); previously the Hawks (Ngā Kārearea), is the national men's team for the sport of Australian rules football in New Zealand. The International Cup team is selected from strict criteria from the best New Zealand born and developed players, primarily from the clubs of the AFL New Zealand.

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New Zealand national rugby league team

The New Zealand national rugby league team (tīma rīki motu Aotearoa) has represented New Zealand in rugby league since 1907.

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Niš

Niš (Ниш,; names in other languages), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District.

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Niklas Kronwall

Hans Niklas Kronwall (born 12 January 1981) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman, who currently serves as an advisor to the general manager of the Detroit Red Wings.

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North Ballarat Football & Netball Club, nicknamed the Roosters, is an Australian rules football and netball club based at Mars Stadium in Ballarat.

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Norway women's national handball team

The Norway women's national handball team represents Norway at international handball competitions, and is governed by the Norges Håndballforbund (NHF).

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Not Bourbon

Not Bourbon (foaled in Ontario in 2005) is a Canadian Thoroughbred race horse.

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Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic (Novak Đoković,; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player.

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Ohio State Buckeyes

The Ohio State Buckeyes are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Ohio State University, located in Columbus, Ohio.

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Old Trafford

Old Trafford is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and the home of Manchester United.

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Olympic Stadium (Montreal)

Olympic Stadium (Stade olympique) is a multi-purpose stadium in Montreal, Canada, located at Olympic Park in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of the city.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Oscar De La Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya (born February 4, 1973) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008.

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Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao

Oscar De La Hoya vs.

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Overtime (ice hockey)

Overtime is a method of determining a winner in an ice hockey game when the score is tied after regulation.

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The Papua New Guinea national Australian rules football team (nicknamed the Mosquitos (Moskitos) and for sponsorship purposes, the Telikom PNG Mosquitos) represents Papua New Guinea in the team sport of Australian rules football.

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Paragliding

Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.

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Paul Manning (cyclist)

Paul Christian Manning, (born 6 November 1974, Sutton Coldfield) is a former English professional track and road bicycle racer who rode for the UCI Professional Continental team Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner in 2007 and 2008.

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Paul Pierce

Paul Anthony Pierce (born October 13, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player.

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PBC CSKA Moscow

PBC CSKA Moscow (ПБК ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian professional basketball team based in Moscow, Russia.

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In association football, a penalty shoot-out (previously known as kicks from the penalty mark) is a tie-breaking method to determine which team is awarded victory in a match that cannot end in a draw, when the score is tied after the normal time as well as extra time (if used) has expired (for example, in a FIFA World Cup, penalties are used in elimination matches; the round of 16, the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, and the final).

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Pittsburgh Penguins

The Pittsburgh Penguins (colloquially known as the Pens) are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh.

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Polo

Polo is a ball game that is played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports.

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The Port Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Borough, is an Australian rules football club based in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne.

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Portes du Soleil

Les Portes du Soleil (literally "The Doors of the Sun") is a major skisports destination in the Alps, encompassing thirteen resorts between Mont Blanc in France and Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

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Powerlifting

Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.

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Prince of Wales Stakes

The Prince of Wales Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Fort Erie Race Track in Fort Erie, Ontario.

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Queensland rugby league team

The Queensland rugby league team represents the Australian state of Queensland in rugby league football.

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Radiosport

Radiosport (or radio sport) is formal competition among amateur radio operators in any of three amateur radio activities: ARDF, DXing, and Contesting.

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Radom

Radom is a city in east-central Poland, located approximately south of the capital, Warsaw.

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Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player.

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Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan Royals (often abbreviated as RR) are a professional franchise cricket team based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, that competes in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

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Raven's Pass

Raven's Pass (foaled February 17, 2005 in Kentucky) is an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse most notable for being the first English-trained winner of the Grade I Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.

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Rebecca Romero

Rebecca Jayne Romero, MBE (born 24 January 1980) is an English sportswoman, a former World Champion and Olympic Games silver medallist at rowing, and a former World champion and an Olympic champion track cyclist.

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Rieti

Rieti (Reate, Sabino: Riete) is a town and comune in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 47,700.

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Rocco Anthony Mediate (born December 17, 1962) is an American professional golfer who has won six times on the PGA Tour and three times on the PGA Tour Champions.

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Roger Federer

Roger Federer (born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player.

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Rotorcraft

A rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air aircraft with rotary wings or rotor blades, which generate lift by rotating around a vertical mast.

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Rowing (sport)

Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars.

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Roy Jones Jr.

Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American professional boxer.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and South America, and referred to colloquially as football, footy or league in its heartlands, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring wide and long with H-shaped posts at both ends.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Russian Superleague

The Russian Superleague (Чемпионат России Суперлига, Russian Championship Superleague), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia.

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Saitama Seibu Lions

The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture.

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San Antonio Stars

The San Antonio Stars were a professional basketball team based in San Antonio, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

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Screen Hero

Screen Hero (スクリーンヒーロー, foaled 18 April 2004) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the 2008 Japan Cup.

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Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American former professional tennis player.

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Shanaze Reade

Shanaze Danielle Reade (born 23 September 1988 in Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom) is a British former bicycle motocross (BMX) racer and track cyclist whose prime competitive years began in 2002.

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Ski mountaineering

Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and then descending on skis.

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The Spain national football team (Selección Española de Fútbol) has represented Spain in men's international football competitions since 1920.

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St Helens R.F.C.

St Helens R.F.C., commonly known as Saints, is a professional rugby league club in St Helens, Merseyside, England.

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St Leger Stakes

| The St Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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Stadium Australia

Stadium Australia, commercially known as Accor Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Sydney Olympic Park, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Stardom Bound

Stardom Bound (foaled in Kentucky on April 9, 2006) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2008 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and the Eclipse Award for Champion 2-Year-Old Filly.

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State Farm Stadium

State Farm Stadium is a multi-purpose retractable roof stadium in Glendale, Arizona, United States, west of Phoenix.

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Strikeforce: At The Dome

Strikeforce: At The Dome was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Strikeforce in conjunction with Brian Halquist Productions.

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Strikeforce: At The Mansion II

Strikeforce: At the Mansion II was a mixed martial arts event held on September 20, 2008.

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Strikeforce: Destruction

Strikeforce: Destruction was a mixed martial arts event held on November 21, 2008.

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Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Thomson

Strikeforce: Melendez vs.

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Strikeforce: Payback

Strikeforce: Payback was a mixed martial arts event held on October 3, 2008.

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Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Le

Strikeforce: Shamrock vs.

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Sultan Ibragimov

Sultan-Ahmed Magomedsalihovich Ibragimov (Султан-Ахмед Магомедсалихович Ибрагимов, Султан-АхӀмад МухӀаммадсалихӀазул вас Ибрагьимов; born 8 March 1975) is a Russian former professional boxer.

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Super Bowl XLII

Super Bowl XLII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2007 season.

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Swansea Indoor Bowls Stadium

The Swansea Indoor Bowls Stadium is an indoor bowls stadium based in Plasmarl, Swansea, Wales.

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Sweden men's national ice hockey team

The Sweden men's national ice hockey team (Sveriges herrlandslag i ishockey) is governed by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association.

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Sydney Cricket Ground

The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in the Moore Park suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Sydney Kings

The Sydney Kings are an Australian men's professional basketball team competing in the National Basketball League (NBL).

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Syracuse University

Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.

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Taiwan Series

The Taiwan Series is the final championship series of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL).

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Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball

The Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team represents the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in NCAA women's basketball competition.

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Teun Mulder

Teunis ("Teun") Mulder (born 18 June 1981 in Zuuk, Gelderland) is a Dutch track cyclist.

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The Boat Race 2008

The 154th Boat Race took place on 29 March 2008.

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The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs.

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The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs. Team Forrest

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs.

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Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Stakes

The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and up, and contested on dirt usually at a distance of miles.

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Tiger Woods

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer.

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Tokyo Dome

is an indoor stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan.

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Tom Brady

Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. (born August 3, 1977) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 23 seasons.

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Trevor Immelman

Trevor John Immelman (born 16 December 1979) is a South African retired professional golfer and television commentator who has played on the PGA Tour, European Tour and Sunshine Tour.

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Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)

In the United States, the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, commonly known as the Triple Crown, is a series of horse races for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, consisting of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.

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Triple Gold Club

The Triple Gold Club is the group of ice hockey players and coaches who have won an Olympic Games gold medal, a World Championship gold medal, and the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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U.S. Open (golf)

The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open national championship of golf in the United States.

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UEFA Euro 2008

The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2008 or simply Euro 2008, was the 13th UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial football tournament contested by the member nations of UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations).

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UFC 80

UFC 80: Rapid Fire was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), that took place on 19 January 2008 at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, United Kingdom.

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UFC 81

UFC 81: Breaking Point was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event held on February 2, 2008, by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip.

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UFC 82

UFC 82: Pride of a Champion was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event that took place on March 1, 2008, at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.

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UFC 83

UFC 83: Serra vs.

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UFC 84

UFC 84: Ill Will was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on May 24, 2008, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada.

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UFC 85

UFC 85: Bedlam was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on June 7, 2008, at The O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom.

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UFC 86

UFC 86: Jackson vs.

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UFC 87

UFC 87: Seek and Destroy was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on August 9, 2008, at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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UFC 88

UFC 88: Breakthrough was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on September 6, 2008, at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.

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UFC 89

UFC 89: Bisping vs.

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UFC 90

UFC 90: Silva vs.

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UFC 91

UFC 91: Couture vs.

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UFC 92

UFC 92: The Ultimate 2008 was a mixed martial arts (MMA) pay-per-view event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on December 27, 2008 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs. Neer

UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs.

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UFC Fight Night: Florian vs. Lauzon

UFC Fight Night: Florian vs.

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UFC Fight Night: Silva vs. Irvin

UFC Fight Night: Silva vs.

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UFC Fight Night: Swick vs. Burkman

UFC Fight Night: Swick vs.

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UFC: Fight for the Troops

UFC: Fight for the Troops (also known as UFC: Fight for the Troops 1 and UFC Fight Night 16) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on December 10, 2008, at the Cumberland County Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions

The Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions, stylized as Uni-President 7-ᴇʟᴇᴠᴇn Lions, also known as Uni-Lions, are a professional baseball team playing in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL).

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Valhalla Golf Club

Valhalla Golf Club, located in Louisville, Kentucky, is a private golf club designed by Jack Nicklaus, opened in 1986.

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Vasil Kiryienka

Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka (Васіль Васілевіч Кірыенка; Łacinka: Vasil Vasilevič Kiryjenka; born 28 June 1981) is a Belarusian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2020 for the OTC Doors,,, and squads.

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Ventura (horse)

Ventura (January 31, 2004) is a thoroughbred racehorse who competed in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Venus Williams

Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player.

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Victoria Pendleton

Victoria Louise Pendleton,, OLY (born 24 September 1980) is a British jockey and former track cyclist who specialised in the sprint, team sprint and keirin disciplines.

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Viewed

Viewed (4 October 2003 – 18 April 2010) was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 148th Melbourne Cup on 4 November 2008.

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Wales national rugby union team

The Wales national rugby union team (Tîm rygbi'r undeb cenedlaethol Cymru) represents the Welsh Rugby Union in men's international rugby union.

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Water polo

Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each.

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WEC 32

WEC 32: New Mexico was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event held by World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) that took place on Wednesday, February 13, 2008.

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WEC 33

WEC 33: Marshall vs.

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WEC 34

WEC 34: Faber vs.

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WEC 35

WEC 35: Condit vs.

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WEC 36

WEC 36: Faber vs.

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WEC 37

WEC 37: Torres vs.

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Wembley Stadium

Wembley Stadium (sometimes referred to as The New Wembley and branded as Wembley Stadium connected by EE for sponsorship reasons) is an association football stadium in Wembley, London.

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Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Klitschko (born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2017.

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Women's lacrosse

Women's lacrosse (or girls' lacrosse), sometimes shortened to lax, is a field sport played at the international level with two opposing teams of ten players each (12 players per team at the U.S. domestic level).

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World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association (WBA), formerly known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), is the oldest and one of four major organizations which sanction professional boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Organization (WBO).

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World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council (WBC) is an international professional boxing organization.

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World Boxing Organization

The World Boxing Organization (WBO) is an organization which sanctions professional boxing bouts.

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World Gliding Championships

The World Gliding Championships (WGC) is a gliding competition held roughly every two years by the FAI Gliding Commission.

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World Lacrosse

World Lacrosse (WL), formerly the Federation of International Lacrosse, is the international governing body of lacrosse, responsible for the men's, women's, and indoor versions of the sport.

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World Series

The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada.

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World Series Most Valuable Player Award

The Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is given to the Major League Baseball (MLB) player deemed to have the most impact on his team's performance in the World Series, which is the final round of the MLB postseason.

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World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 5

World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 5 was a mixed martial arts event promoted by World Victory Road.

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World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 6

World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 6 was a mixed martial arts event promoted by World Victory Road.

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Zarkava

Zarkava (foaled 31 March 2005 in Ireland) is an undefeated French Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2008 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

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Zenyatta

Zenyatta (foaled April 1, 2004) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Breeders' Cup Classic and Breeders' Cup Distaff and 19 of her 20 starts.

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1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season

The 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season was the franchise's first season in the National Football League (NFL).

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1986 VFL grand final

The 1986 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the Carlton Football Club.

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2000 Guineas Stakes

The 2000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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2007 Miami Dolphins season

The 2007 season was the Miami Dolphins' 38th season in the National Football League, their 42nd overall, their the third and final under general manager Randy Mueller and first and only under head coach Cam Cameron.

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The 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the highest level of college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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2007 Super League Grand Final

The 2007 Super League Grand Final was 10th official Grand Final and the conclusive and championship-deciding match of the Super League XII season.

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2007–08 Euroleague

The 2007–08 Euroleague was the 8th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 51st season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall.

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2007–08 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team

The 2007–08 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas for the NCAA Division I men's intercollegiate basketball season of 2007–08, which was the Jayhawks' 110th Season.

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2007–08 Men's EuroFloorball Cup Finals

The 2007–08 Men's EuroFloorball Cup Finals took place in Vantaa, Finland, from 9 to 13 January 2008.

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2007–08 NBL season

The 2007–08 NBL season was the 30th season of competition since its establishment in 1979.

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2007–08 UEFA Champions League

The 2007–08 UEFA Champions League was the 16th season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League, since it was rebranded in 1992, and the 53rd tournament overall.

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2008 AFL Grand Final

The 2008 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match contested between the Geelong Football Club and the Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 2008.

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2008 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the MTN Africa Cup of Nations due to the competition's sponsorship by MTN, was the 26th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football tournament for nations affiliated with the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

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2008 Anzac Test

The 2008 ANZAC test, also known as the Centenary Test as it commemorated the 100th anniversary of the first test match between the two countries, was a rugby league test match played between Australia and New Zealand at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 9 May 2008.

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2008 Asia Series

Official logo (Japanese language) The 2008 Asia Series was contested on November 13–16 by the champions of Nippon Professional Baseball's Japan Series, the Korea Baseball Organization's Korean Series, Chinese Professional Baseball League's Taiwan Series, and the championship of the China Baseball League of the People's Republic of China.

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The 2008 Australian Football International Cup was the third time the Australian Football International Cup, an international Australian rules football competition, has been contested.

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2008 Australian Open

The 2008 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts.

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2008 Australian Open – Men's singles

Novak Djokovic defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3, 7–6(7–2) to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2008 Australian Open.

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2008 Australian Open – Women's singles

Maria Sharapova defeated Ana Ivanovic in the final, 7–5, 6–3 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2008 Australian Open.

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2008 Belmont Stakes

The 2008 Belmont Stakes was the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes.

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2008 Breeders' Cup

The 2008 Breeders' Cup World Championships was the 25th edition of the premier event of the North American Thoroughbred horse racing year.

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2008 Challenge Cup

The 2008 Challenge Cup (also known as the Carnegie Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 107th staging of the most prestigious knock-out competition in the world of Rugby league, featuring teams from across Europe, including England, Scotland, Wales, France and Russia.

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2008 Challenge Cup final

The 2008 Challenge Cup Final was the final game of the 2008 Challenge Cup, also known as The Carnegie Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons.

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2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup

The 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup was a horse race which took place at Cheltenham on Friday 14 March 2008.

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2008 Copa Libertadores

The 2008 Copa Libertadores de América was the 49th edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL's premier annual international club tournament.

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2008 Detroit Lions season

The 2008 Detroit Lions season was the franchise's 79th season in the National Football League (NFL), and their 75th as the Detroit Lions.

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2008 Dubai World Cup

The 2008 Dubai World Cup was a horse race held at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse on Saturday 29 March 2008.

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2008 Epsom Derby

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2008 Euroleague Final Four

The 2008 Euroleague Final Four was the final phase Euroleague Final Four tournament of the Euroleague 2007–08 season, featuring four teams that survived a 14-game Regular Season, 6 games in the Top 16 phase, and a best-of-three quarterfinal.

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2008 European Men's Handball Championship

The 2008 EHF European Men's Handball Championship (8th tournament) was held in Norway from 17 to 27 January, in the cities of Bergen, Drammen, Lillehammer, Stavanger and Trondheim.

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2008 European Weightlifting Championships

The 2008 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy from 11 to 20 April 2008.

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2008 European Women's Handball Championship

The 2008 EHF European Women's Handball Championship was held in the Republic of Macedonia from 2–14 December, it was won by Norway after beating Spain 34–21 in the final match.

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2008 FINA Diving World Cup

The 2008 FINA Diving World Cup was held in Beijing, China and was a test event for the new Beijing Aquatics Center (Water Cube), as well as a qualifying event for 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

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2008 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

The 2008 FINA Men's Water Polo World League was the seventh edition of the annual event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA.

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2008 FINA Women's Water Polo World League

The 2008 FINA Women's Water Polo World League was the fifth edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA.

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2008 French Open

The 2008 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts.

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2008 French Open – Men's singles

Three-time defending champion Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer in a rematch of the two previous years' finals, 6–1, 6–3, 6–0 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2008 French Open.

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2008 French Open – Women's singles

Ana Ivanovic defeated Dinara Safina in the final, 6–4, 6–3 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2008 French Open.

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2008 Giro d'Italia

The 2008 Giro d'Italia was the 91st running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours.

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2008 Grand National

The 2008 Grand National (officially known as the John Smith's Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 161st official annual running of the Grand National steeplechase which took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 5 April 2008 and attracted the maximum permitted field of 40 runners, competing for total prize money of £450,640.

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2008 IIHF World Championship

The 2008 IIHF World Championship was played between May 2 and May 18, 2008 in the Canadian cities of Halifax (Nova Scotia) and Quebec City (Quebec).

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2008 in Strikeforce

The year 2008 was the third year in the history of Strikeforce, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States.

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2008 Indian Premier League

The 2008 Indian Premier League season was the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League, established by the BCCI in 2007.

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2008 Japan Series

The 2008 Japan Series was the 59th edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's championship series.

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2008 Kentucky Derby

The 2008 Kentucky Derby was the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby.

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2008 Masters Tournament

The 2008 Masters Tournament was the 72nd Masters Tournament, held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

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2008 Melbourne Cup

The 2008 Melbourne Cup, the 148th running of Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race, was run on Tuesday, 4 November 2008, starting at 3:00 pm local time (0400 UTC).

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2008 Men's EuroFloorball Cup Finals

The 2008 Men's EuroFloorball Cup Finals were held in Winterthur, Switzerland from 8 to 12 October 2008.

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2008 Men's European Water Polo Championship

The 2008 Men's European Water Polo Championship was the 28th edition of the bi-annual event, organised by the Europe's governing body in aquatics, the Ligue Européenne de Natation.

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2008 Men's World Floorball Championships

The 2008 Men's World Floorball Championships were the seventh men's Floorball World Championships.

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2008 Miami Dolphins season

The 2008 Miami Dolphins season was the franchise's 39th season in the National Football League (NFL), the 43rd overall and the first under new head coach Tony Sparano.

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2008 NBA Finals

The 2008 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2007–08 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs.

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2008 NCAA Division I baseball tournament

The 2008 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was held from May 30 through June 25, 2008 and was part of the 2008 NCAA Division I baseball season.

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2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game

The 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the finals of the 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 2007-08 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

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2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament

The 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament that determined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball national champion for the 2007-08 season.

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2008 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament

The 2008 NCAA Division I lacrosse tournament was the 38th annual tournament hosted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the team champion of men's college lacrosse among its Division I programs.

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2008 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament

The 2008 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament involved 64 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the 2007–08 national champion of women's NCAA Division I college basketball.

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2008 New England Patriots season

The 2008 season was the New England Patriots' 39th in the National Football League (NFL) and their 49th overall.

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2008 NRL Grand Final

The 2008 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2008 NRL season.

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2008 NRL season

The 2008 NRL season was the 101st season of professional rugby league club competition in Australia, and the eleventh run by the National Rugby League.

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2008 Preakness Stakes

The 2008 Preakness Stakes was the 133rd running of the Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race.

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2008 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

The 2008 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday 5 October 2008.

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2008 Rugby League World Cup

The 2008 Rugby League World Cup was the thirteenth World Cup for men’s rugby league national teams.

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2008 Rugby League World Cup final

The 2008 Rugby League World Cup final was the championship-deciding game of the 2008 Rugby League World Cup tournament.

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2008 Ryder Cup

The 37th Ryder Cup Matches were held September 19–21, 2008, in the United States at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

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2008 Six Nations Championship

The 2008 Six Nations Championship, known as the 2008 RBS 6 Nations because of sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was the ninth series of the rugby union Six Nations Championship, the 114th series of the international championship.

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2008 Stanley Cup Finals

The 2008 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2007–08 season, and the culmination of the 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs.

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2008 State of Origin series

The 2008 State of Origin series was the 27th year that the annual best-of-three series of interstate rugby league football matches between the Queensland and New South Wales representative teams was contested entirely under 'state of origin' selection rules.

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2008 Sugar Bowl

The 2008 Allstate Sugar Bowl was an American college football bowl game.

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2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.

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2008 Super League season

Engage Super League XIII was the official name, due to sponsorship, for the 2008 Super League season by Engage Mutual.

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2008 Tour de France

The 2008 Tour de France was the 95th running of the race.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's 1 km time trial

The 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's 1 km Time Trial was the 2008 world championship track cycling time trial.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit

The Men's individual pursuit event of the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 26 March 2008.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's keirin

The Men's keirin event of the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 29 March 2008.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's madison

The Men's madison event of the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 29 March 2008.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's omnium

The Men's sprint event of the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 30 March 2008.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's points race

The Men's points race event of the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 28 March 2008.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's scratch

The Men's scratch event of the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 26 March 2008.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's sprint

The Men's sprint event of the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 27 and 28 March 2008.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit

The Men's team pursuit event of the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 27 March 2008.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team sprint

The Men's team sprint event of the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on 26 March 2008.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's 500 m time trial

The Women's 500 m time trial was one of the 8 women's events at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, United Kingdom.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's individual pursuit

The Women's Individual Pursuit was one of the eight women's events at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, United Kingdom.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's keirin

The Women's Keirin is one of the 8 women's events at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, United Kingdom.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's points race

The Women's Points Race was one of the 8 women's events at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, United Kingdom.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch

The 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch was the women's scratch race at 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's sprint

The Women's Sprint was one of the eight women's events at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, United Kingdom.

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2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team sprint

The Women's Team Sprint was one of the 8 women's events at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, United Kingdom.

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2008 UEFA Champions League final

The 2008 UEFA Champions League final was a football match that took place on 21 May 2008 at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, to determine the winner of the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League.

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2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup

The 2008 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was held in Malaysia from 17 February 2008 to 2 March 2008.

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2008 US Open (tennis)

The 2008 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts.

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2008 US Open – Men's singles

Four-time defending champion Roger Federer defeated Andy Murray in the final, 6–2, 7–5, 6–2 to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2008 US Open.

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2008 US Open – Women's singles

Serena Williams defeated Jelena Janković in the final, 6–4, 7–5 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2008 US Open.

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2008 Vuelta a España

The 2008 Vuelta a España was the 63rd edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours.

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2008 Wimbledon Championships

The 2008 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom.

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2008 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles

Rafael Nadal defeated five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the final, 6–4, 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–7(8–10), 9–7 to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.

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2008 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles

Defending champion Venus Williams defeated her sister Serena Williams in the final, 7–5, 6–4 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.

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2008 WNBA Finals

The 2008 WNBA Finals was the championship series of the 2008 WNBA season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.

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2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup Finals

The 2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup Finals took place in Winterthur, Switzerland from 8 to 12 October 2008.

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2008 Women's European Water Polo Championship

The 2008 Women's European Water Polo Championship was the twelve edition of the bi-annual event, organised by the Europe's governing body in aquatics, the Ligue Européenne de Natation.

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2008 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering

The 2008 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering was the fourth World Championship of Ski Mountaineering sanctioned by the International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions (ISMC), held in Portes du Soleil, Switzerland, from February 23 to February 29, 2008.

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2008 World Club Challenge

The 2008 Carnegie World Club Challenge was contested between Super League XII champions, the Leeds Rhinos and National Rugby League season 2007 premiers, the Melbourne Storm.

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2008 World Figure Skating Championships

The 2008 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2007–08 figure skating season.

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2008 World Polo Championship

The 2008 World Polo Championship, eight edition, took place in Mexico during May 2008 and was won by Chile.

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2008 World Series

The 2008 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2008 season.

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2017 Cleveland Browns season

The 2017 season was the Cleveland Browns' 65th in the National Football League (NFL), their 69th overall, their second under head coach Hue Jackson and their second and final season under general manager Sashi Brown.

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96th Grey Cup

The 96th Grey Cup was held in Montreal, Quebec at Olympic Stadium on November 23, 2008.

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