"Foot fault!" (Shino Tsurubuchi was the line judge)

Serena who was facing match point went off on a tirade that caused her to lose a point and hence the match.

The official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympics

They are animations depicting two drops of steel from a steelworks in Bolton.

Tunisia

Carthage, a major urban centre that existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis is currently a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia.

A dragon

Titled 'Chamber of Fear', the advertisement featured LeBron James simultaneously dribbling a ball while fighting off several adversaries. In Chinese culture today, the dragon is mostly used for decorative purposes. It is a taboo to disfigure a depiction of a dragon.

Finals of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa

The stadium is also known by its nickname 'The Calabash' due to its resemblance to the African pot or gourd.

Whom/what are we talking about?

Judith Polgár beating Garry Kasparov

It happened in the Russia versus the Rest of the World Match.

Nike, the Greek goddess of victory

In 2004, the image changed to make more explicit the reference to the Greek character of the games. In this design, the goddess Nike flies into the Panathenic stadium, reflecting the renewal of the games.

Checkers/ English draughts

In 2007, Chinook's developers announced that the program has been improved to the point where it cannot lose a game. All of Chinook's knowledge was programmed by its creators, rather than learned with artificial intelligence.

Antarctica!

Competitors can enter any of the individual races within the 4 Deserts series, but if they wish to take part in The Last Desert (Antarctica) then they must complete a minimum of two of the other races and receive an invitation to participate.

Eventing

Dressage - horsemanship, cross-country - endurance and show jumping - skill.

Holyfield (after Evander Holyfield)

He is of course known for losing it to Mike Tyson's teeth in 1997.

A rider must pick the carcass of a headless goat/calf and throw it across a target

Buzkashi is the Afghan national sport. It is also a popular sport among the south Central Asians such as the Uzbeks, Hazaras, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, Turkmens and Pashtuns.

Joe Louis (1914-81)

Synchronized swimming

Sculls are hand movements used to propel the body and eggbeater is a form of treading water that allows for stability and height above the water while leaving the hands free to perform strokes.

Darts

It is the line behind which the throwing player must stand.

The America

The America's Cup is the oldest active trophy in international sport. The trophy was renamed the America's Cup after the boat and was donated to the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) under the terms of the Deed of Gift which made the cup available for perpetual international competition.

Phoenix

Four under par (Condor) is the lowest individual hole score ever made. Five under par is an Ostrich.

Bobsledding (from 'bobbing' on their sleds)

The bobsled was developed in Switzerland in 1897 when a group of vacationers put runners on a toboggan to get greater speed down the famous Cresta Run at St. Moritz.

Dick Fosbury

He completely revolutionized the high jump event, inventing a unique 'back-first' technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop, adopted by almost all high jumpers today. Before Fosbury, most elite jumpers used the Straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off or even Scissors-Jump to clear the bar.

2 meters per second

The exceptions are the combined events like heptathlon and decathlon. Here, the total score may be accepted even though some of the results had a tail wind of more than 2.0 m/s. The maximum limit is 4.0 m/s for any one event, but 2.0 m/s on average across all applicable disciplines.

Taiwan

It refused to use the name Chinese Taipei when China made its debut and took the name away.

Fencing

It is worn by Foil and Sabre fencers. In foil, the lamé extends on the torso from the shoulders to the groin area. It also covers the back. In sabre, the lamé covers both arms, the torso from the shoulders to the waist, and the back. The lamé is connected to the body cord with an alligator clip causing it to be conductive.

Sudoku (from Japan)

Completed puzzles are always a type of Latin square (an n × n array filled with n different Latin letters, each occurring exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column) with an additional constraint on the contents of individual regions.

Sumo wrestlers!

Only their perceived lack of stamina and high-cost prevented him.

Pelé

Brooklyn Dodgers

'Yogi' Berra

..., Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian.

Olympic

These are the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games. The Games took place in a four-year cycle known as the Olympiad, which was one of the ways the Greeks measured time. The Olympic Games were used as a starting point, year one of the cycle; the Nemean and Isthmian Games were both held (in different months) in year two, followed by the Pythian Games in year three, and then the Nemean and Isthmian Games again in year four. The cycle then repeated itself with the Olympic Games. They were structured this way so that individual athletes could participate in all of the games.

In golf, to measure the speed of a putting green

It was designed by golfer Edward Stimpson, Sr. in 1935, hence the name.

Ladies' figure skating

The study also found that three figure skaters - Dorothy Hamill, Peggy Fleming, and Scott Hamilton were among the eight most popular athletes in the United States, out of over 800 athletes surveyed.

Tom Clancy

The cricketer Donald Bradman

In 2001, more than 50 years after his retirement as a Test player, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard called him the "greatest living Australian". Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been claimed to be statistically the greatest achievement in any major sport.

Bernie Ecclestone

His control of the sport, which grew from his pioneering the sale of television rights in the late 1970s, is chiefly financial, but he and his companies also manage the administration, setup and logistics of each Formula One Grand Prix.

The tangram

The pole vault

He broke the world record for men's pole vaulting 35 times. He was the first to clear 6.0 meters and the first and only (as of 2010) to clear 6.10 meters.

Contract bridge

Norway

The Augusta National Golf Club

Since 1934 it has played host to the annual Masters Tournament, one of the four major championships in professional golf. It is currently ranked the number one course in Golf Digest's list of America's 100 greatest courses.

Zugzwang

The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it were his opponent's turn to move.

The Australian Open

Repechage

In karate, judo, taekwondo, and wrestling tournaments, single elimination brackets are used to determine the two athletes who will compete in the final match for first and second place. The repechage bracket is built by selecting all of the athletes who were knocked out by the finalists and building brackets to determine third place. Repechage addresses the possibility of two top competitors meeting in an early round, allowing the loser a chance to compete for a bronze medal.

Charles Atlas (1892-1972)

Dynamic Tension is a self-resistance exercise method which pits muscle against muscle. The practitioner tenses the muscles of given body part and then moves the body part against the tension as if a heavy weight was being lifted. However, Dynamic Tension exercises are not merely isometrics, since they call for movement.

Roger Bannister and John Landy

Landy ran his second sub-4 minute mile in the race, but lost to Roger Bannister, who had his best-ever time. On the final turn of the last lap, as Landy looked over his left shoulder, Bannister passed him on the right. A larger-than-life bronze sculpture of the two men at this moment was created by Vancouver sculptor Jack Harman in 1967. egarding this sculpture, Landy quipped that "While Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back, I am probably the only one ever turned into bronze for looking back."

Hockey

A legendary center-forward, he is remembered for his goal-scoring feats, first as a player and later as captain. Chand won 3 Olympic gold medals (1928 Amsterdam, 1932 Los Angeles, 1936 Berlin).

The Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman

According to the documentary When We Were Kings, promoter Don King promised both fighters $5,000,000 USD for the fight, and no other group would put up that kind of money for the fight. Mobutu, wanting to expand the image of the nation of Zaire, put up the nation's money to do so. According to a quote in the film, Ali supposedly said: "Some countries go to war to get their names out there, and wars cost a lot more than $10,000,000."

Lausanne

The IOC officially recognises the city as the Capitale Olympique.

Surfing

Growing up on the outskirts of Waikiki (near the present site of the Hilton Hawaiian Village), Kahanamoku spent his youth as a bronzed beach boy. It was at Waikiki Beach where he developed his surfing and swimming skills.

The Long Count Fight in which Tunney won

It was said to be the first $1 million gate and the first $2 million gate in entertainment history. Because of a controversial delay offered to Tunney when he was down, it became known as The Long Count Fight.

Tiger Woods

A syllabic abbreviation he coined from Caucasian, Black, (American) Indian, and Asian).

Bocce

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Alpine Skiing

In North America, the easiest ski runs are marked by green circles, and are typically fairly flat and smooth. Sometimes known as "bunny slopes", they are usually groomed by specially equipped snowcats every night. A blue square marks slopes of medium difficulty; these blue squares may be steeper or narrower than green circles, or they may be left in a natural state rather than machine-groomed. A black diamond run is yet steeper than a blue square and often involves challenging terrain such as moguls, narrow passes, unmarked obstacles, double fall lines, or gladed sections. A double black diamond is for experts only; these trails are steep, rarely groomed and often left in a completely natural state. There is no standard for these designations, however, and each ski resort determines them relative to their own terrain difficulty.

Secretariat, who in 1973 became the first Triple Crown champion in twenty-five years

It set new race records in two of the three events in the Series - the Kentucky Derby (1:59 2/5), and the Belmont Stakes (2:24) - records that still stand today. The other two non-humans on the list were also racehorses: Man o' War at 84th and Citation at 97th.

Tabletennis

Bela Karolyi

Károlyi has coached nine Olympic champions, fifteen world champions, sixteen European medalists and six U.S. national champions.

Dominos

The name comes from the resemblance of its main artifacts to Venetian Carnival masks that were in turn named as they resembled French priests' winter hoods. The name ultimately derives from the Latin dominus, meaning 'lord' or 'master'.

Israel

A number of players condemned the action to not grant Peer a visa, and WTA chief Larry Scott said that he had considered canceling the tournament, but chose not to after consulting Peer. ATP player Andy Roddick chose not to defend his title, with prize money of over $2 million, to protest the UAE's refusal to grant Peer a visa for the event.

In American roulette, there is a pocket marked 00 that is not present in the European version

The character of Rocky Balboa

Young actor Sylvester Stallone watched the fight at home on television and was inspired to write the script for Rocky, based on Wepner's gutsy challenge. Wepner would later sue Stallone three times (twice unsuccessfully) for a share of the profits. Stallone settled for an undisclosed amount in the third suit, having publicly stated that Wepner was his inspiration for the script.

A 'Go Kart'

Art Ingels is known as 'the father of karting'.

Marcelo Rios

Egypt

The oldest remnants of any ancient board game ever unearthed are those of senet, found in Predynastic and First Dynasty burials of Egypt, circa 3500 BC and 3100 BC respectively. By the time of the New Kingdom in Egypt (1567–1085 BC), it had become a kind of talisman for the journey of the dead. Because of the element of luck in the game and the Egyptian belief in determinism, it was believed that a successful player was under the protection of the major gods of the national pantheon: Ra, Thoth, and sometimes Osiris. Consequently, Senet boards were often placed in the grave.

Robert Trent Jones, Sr.

Jones got his first big assignment designing the Peachtree Golf Club in Atlanta in collaboration with golf legend Bobby Jones. Despite the similarity of their names, the two men were not related. In fact Robert began using the middle name "Trent" shortly afterward to avoid confusion. Jones courses are noted for their artistic landscaping, innovative use of bunkers, liberal use of water hazards, and deft placement of greens and hazards that encourage a high level of strategy. He believed that golf should be a no risk; no reward sport and his designs encouraged daring play.

Great Britian

Ranging from one gold in 1904, 1952 and 1996 to fifty-six golds in 1908.

Zola Budd Pieterse

The New York City Marathon

The Barilla Marathon Eve Dinner, an enormous pre-race pasta party on the eve of the marathon, takes place at the Tavern.

24 Hours of Le Mans

The race became a major motion picture in 1971 when Steve McQueen released his simply titled Le Mans, starring McQueen as a driver in the 1970 event for the Gulf Porsche team. Likened to other motorsports films such as Grand Prix for Formula One racing and Winning for the Indianapolis 500, Le Mans is the best known film to center on sports car racing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans)

The Black Power salute

After completing their 200 metre race, Tommie Smith, who won the race in a then world record time, with Australia's Peter Norman second and John Carlos in third place, went to collect their medals at the podium. The two American athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty. Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride. After being expelled from the games, Smith and Carlos were largely ostracised by the U.S. sporting establishment in the following years and in addition were subject to criticism of their actions. In recent years, their stand has been vindicated and San Jose State University honored them with a twenty foot high statue of their protest in 2005.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute)

Mia Hamm

She was named the women's FIFA World Player of the Year the first two times that award was given (in 2001 and 2002), and is listed as one of FIFA's 125 best living players (as chosen by Pelé). Women's Professional Soccer, a professional soccer league that plans to launch in 2009, features Hamm's silhouette in its logo.

Haka

It is a posture dance with shouted accompaniment, performed by a group. Haka are not exclusively war dances, nor are they only performed by men. Some are performed by women, others by mixed groups, and some simple haka are performed by children.

Kubb

Rules vary from country to country and from region to region, but the ultimate object of the game is to knock the "King" over, before your opponent does. This, combined with the fact that there is a surprising level of strategy that can be used by players, has led some players and kubb fans to nickname the game "Viking Chess." The game can be played on a variety of surfaces such as sand, concrete, grass, or even ice.

Pentecost Island

Between April and June every year, men in the southern part of the island jump from tall towers with vines tied to their feet, in a ritual believed to ensure a good yam harvest. The ritual is also now used to show acceptance into manhood. Land diving was first given international exposure when David Attenborough and a BBC film crew brought back footage of the ritual during the 1950s.

A baseball card

The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is a rare baseball card depicting Honus Wagner, a dead-ball era baseball player who is widely considered to be one of the finest players of all time. This Wagner card is the most valuable baseball card in history and it last fetched a sale price of $2.8 million.

George Balabushka (1912-1975)

His full name or last name standing alone is often used to refer to a cue stick made by him. Although already well known and valuable to collectors, Balabushka and his cues became much more so after being prominently featured in the movie.

This was the modest statement of a coach in 1992 (an Olympic year). Who is 'we'?

The US Basketball team at the Olympics, the original 'Dream Team'

This statement was made by Chuck Daly. The 1992 team consisting of Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson is often regarded as the greatest collection of talent on one team in basketball history.

The Queensberry rules for the sport of boxing

They were named so because the 9th Marquess of Queensberry publicly endorsed the code. This version persuaded boxers that "you must not fight simply to win; no holds barred is not the way; you must win by the rules".

Jules Verne, of course!

The original idea for this competition has been attributed to Yves Le Cornec in 1985. The rules were defined in 1990.

Michael Johnson

His upright stance and very short steps defied the perceived wisdom that a high knee lift was essential for maximum speed. When asked by a reporter, "If you had a usual running technique like other runners do you think you would go faster?" Johnson responded by saying "If I ran like all the other runners, I would be back there with them."

A boomerang

Each thrower has five attempts. Points are awarded for distance, accuracy and the catch.

The Commonwealth Games

Attendance at the Commonwealth Games is typically around 5,000 athletes.

The Bonneville Speedway

It is part of the 159 sq mile Bonneville salt flat in northwestern Utah. The area is extremely flat and nearly aligned perfectly with the shape of Earth, allowing visitors to see the curvature of the planet by producing an optical illusion that makes many of the mountains within the vicinity appear to be floating in the air since their bases are on the other side of the curve and thus out-of-sight.

Benetton and Ferrari

After winning two championships with Benetton, Schumacher moved to the Ferrari in 1996 and won five consecutive drivers' titles with them.

A swing that results in the clubhead hitting the ground several inches before the ball, resulting in a large 'chunk' of ground being taken as a divot

John McEnroe

'Snatch' and 'Clean and jerk'

A third lift, the "clean and press" or simply "press", was practiced in the Olympics until 1972. The clean and press differs from the clean and jerk, in that the weight is pressed directly up from the chest with the arms only, while remaining standing, while the jerk uses the legs' power to assist the arms part of the way up, followed by the body sinking downward into a split or squat to complete the extension of the arms, before once again standing. The press was eliminated due to the difficulty in judging whether the lift was performed correctly: Lifters were bending so far backward as to turn it into a "standing bench press".

Polo

It is played outdoor on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Riders score by driving a white wooden or plastic ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.

Tug of war

Steffi Graf

Bullfighting

En passant

Historically, en passant is one of the last series of major rule changes in European chess that occurred in the 14th to 15th century, together with the introduction of the two-square first move for pawns, castling, and the unlimited range for queens and bishops. Because of their separation from European chess prior to that period, the Asian chess variants do not feature any of these moves.

Monopoly

It is published by Parker Brothers, an imprint of Hasbro. According to Hasbro, since Charles Darrow patented the game in 1935, approximately 750 million people have played the game, making it "the most played [commercial] board game in the world." The 1999 Guinness Book of Records cited Hasbro's previous statistic of 500 million people having played Monopoly. Games Magazine has inducted Monopoly into its Hall of Fame.

Soccer

When one student, Charles Wreford Brown, was asked if he'd like to play rugger, he was the first to abbreviate "association rules" (Football Association rules) by answering, "No, soccer." Brown later became an England international and Football Association vice-president.

300; 12

Over 56,000 perfect games were recorded by USBC in 2005.

Canasta

It is believed that Canasta was invented in Montevideo, Uruguay in the early twentieth century. It then spread to Argentina, and then to the United States and the rest of the world. The game was very popular in the 1950s.

Eagles

The 12 most used names of four-year college mascots: Eagles (74), Tigers (46), Bulldogs (39), Panthers (33), Knights (32), Lions (31), Bears (30), Hawks (28), Cougars (27), Pioneers (27), Warriors (27) and Wildcats (25).

Fencing

The house

Two sweepers with brooms accompany each rock and use timing equipment and their best judgement along with direction from their other teammates to help direct the stones to their resting place. The complex nature of stone placement and shot selection has led some to refer to curling as "chess on ice".

The floor exercise and the vault

Men compete on Floor Exercise, Pommel Horse, Still Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars, and High Bar, while women compete on Vault, Uneven Bars, Beam, and Floor Exercise.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Robinson is widely considered one of the greatest boxers in history, and has been ranked as the greatest boxer of all time by sportswriters, fellow boxers, and trainers. The phrase "pound for pound", was created by sportswriters for him during his career as a way to compare boxers irrespective of weight, and Hall of Fame fighters such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Leonard have ranked Robinson as the greatest pound for pound boxer in history.

Jim Brown

Bill Bradley

In 1969-70, he helped the Knicks win their first NBA championship, followed by a second in 1972-73. The second championship season was Bradley’s best and he made his only All-Star Game appearance that year. Retiring from basketball in 1977, he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. In 1984 the Knicks retired his number 24 jersey.

Mats Wilander

From 1982 through 1988, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at the French Open, three at the Australian Open, and one at the US Open), and one Grand Slam men's doubles title (at Wimbledon). Although he never won the singles title at Wimbledon, Wilander twice won the Australian Open when that tournament was still played on grass courts. He won three of the four Grand Slam singles events in 1988 and finished that year ranked World No. 1.

Ring jousting

Manchester United Football Club

The takeover was fiercely opposed by many fans of Manchester United, who organised themselves in the form of the independent Manchester United Supporters' Trust (formerly Shareholders United), partly because the Glazer takeover saddled the club with a large debt (over $850m) and interest that comes with it (approx £60 million a year).

The middle Sunday of the 2-week tournament

However, rain has forced play on the Middle Sunday three times in the Championship's history: in 1991, 1997, and 2004. On each of these occasions, Wimbledon has staged a "People's Sunday", with unreserved seating and readily available, inexpensive tickets.

Only four (Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, and Manchester United)

Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia

As a child growing up on a farm in Ethiopia he used to run ten kilometres to school every morning, and the same back every evening. This led to a distinctive running posture, with his left arm crooked as if still holding his schoolbooks.

Trinity College, Cambridge

This race is also depicted in the movie Chariots of Fire. It is a rather difficult challenge and the only people believed to have actually completed the run in time are Lord Burghley in 1927 and Sebastian Coe when he beat Steve Cram in a charity race in October 1988.

The Boston Celtics, with 21

The Celtics also hold the record for most championships, with 16.

The games were cancelled in these years due to the World Wars; had they taken place, these cities were the assigned locations

Before their cancellation, the games of 1940 were retracted from Tokyo by the IOC due to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.

Boxing

In the 1970s, amateurism requirements were dropped from the Olympic Charter, leaving decisions on professional participation to the international federation for each sport. This switch was perhaps best exemplified by the American Dream Team, composed of well-paid NBA stars, which won the Olympic gold medal in basketball in 1992.

Murderer's Row

The 1927 Yankees are recognized as one of the best teams in baseball history, alongside the 1939 Yankees, the 1961 Yankees and the 1998 Yankees.

Fiji

He was number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005 and has won three major championships in his career thus far.

The overall last-place rider

Because a red lantern is found at the end of a rail train.

The World Games

Some of the sports that were on the program of the World Games eventually made it as Olympic sports (such as triathlon) or have been Olympic sports in the past (like tug of war). Some of the sports that are currently held at the World Games are orienteering, body building, powerlifting, finswimming, squash, netball, water skiing, casting, etc. The sports that are included in the World Games are based on the facilities available in the host city, no new facilities may be constructed for the games.

It is a synonym for a type of cracker known as hardtack

It is a biscuit made from flour, water, and salt. Inexpensive and long-lasting, it was used during long sea voyages and military campaigns as a primary foodstuff. The name derives from the British seamen's slang for food, "tack", and the fact it is so hard and dry.

Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Foxhunting

It is a recreational form of hunting in which trained dogs pursue Red Foxes, followed by human hunters who are usually on horses but sometimes on foot. Many animal welfare campaigners object to it as barbaric, while many proponents and participants view it as a crucial part of rural history in England, vital for conservation, and a method of pest control.

Long distance running

The Kalenjin have been called by some "the running tribe." Since the mid-1960s, Kenyan men have earned the largest share of major honors in international athletics at distances from 800 meters to the marathon; the vast majority of these Kenyan running stars have been Kalenjin. From 1980 on, about 40% of the top honors available to men in international athletics at these distances (Olympic medals, World Championships medals, and World Cross Country Championships honors) have been earned by Kalenjin.

Splitting an already lodged arrow with another one

The obvious reason. When the term was first used in the 1880s, baseball was almost exclusively confined to North America; thus it was understood that the winner of the championship was the best baseball team in the world

A recent myth has arisen that the 'World' in 'World Series' came about because the New York World newspaper sponsored it. There is no evidence at all supporting that hypothesis.

An autograph

Tegata consist of a hand print of the wrestler accompanied by his fighting name written in calligraphic style by the wrestler himself. The ink for the handprint itself can be either red or black. Original tegata can be quite expensive, but printed copies of the most popular wrestlers can be obtained very inexpensively.

"Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row"

Gerulaitis is considered one of the great "might-have beens" of tennis. Some believe that by indulging in a close and perhaps servile friendship with Björn Borg, Gerulaitis may have stifled the aggressive instincts needed to bring a player to the top rank. He is remembered as one of the most pleasing players to watch on court, and a gentleman off court. He died in a tragic carbon monoxide poisoning accident in 1994 at age 40.

Predicting the round in which he would finish opponents

The New York Jets

The team began in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League under the name New York Titans. The Jets later joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger. The Jets hold the distinction of being the first AFL team to defeat an NFL club in an AFL-NFL World Championship Game when they defeated the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.

Charles Barkley

Harding became notorious for allegedly conspiring to harm competitor Nancy Kerrigan in an attack, which occurred on January 6, 1994 at a practice session during the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

The steeplechase (X is a steeple)

The length of the race is usually 3000 m. The number of laps depends on whether the water jump is located to the inside of lane one or to the outside of lane eight or nine. Each runner encounters a total of 28 barriers over the course of the race, as well as 7 water jumps.

Whose words?

Jesse Owens

The 50km Walk

Most people mistakenly assume its the Marathon, which is 42.195 kms or 26 miles, 385 yards.

London winning the Olympic bid

The Boston Marathon

Occuring annually on Patriot's Day, the third Monday of April, the Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon and ranks as one of the world's most prestigious road racing events. It is considered to be one of the more difficult marathon courses because of the infamous Newton, Massachusetts, hills along Washington Street and Commonwealth Avenue, which culminate in Heartbreak Hill near Boston College.

This led to the establishment of modern gymnastics

In particular, Jahn crafted early models of the horizontal bar, the parallel bars (from a horizontal ladder with the rungs removed), and the vaulting horse. By the end of the nineteenth century, men's gymnastics competition was popular enough to be included in the first "modern" Olympic Games in 1896.

Adjust a piece on its square (without the intention of moving)

Adjustment can only be done when it is the player's move and the adjustment is preceded by speaking I adjust or j'adoube.

The Ruy Lopez

One of the most popular openings, it has such a vast number of variations that in the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings all codes from C60 to C99 are assigned to them.

Alexander Karelin, universally considered the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time

Karelin was famous for his body lift, the "Karelin Lift", where facing the opponent who was lying flat on the mat to keep from being thrown, Karelin was able to lift the opponent from around his waist and throw him all the way over his shoulders, scoring from 2 to 5 points depending on the height of the throw. Karelin's ability to perform this throw against elite opponents weighing as much as 130 kg was amazing to audiences as well as other participants and observers of the sport.

Wilma Rudolph

Ilie Nastase

Until the computer-generated rankings began in 1973, all previous rankings going back to 1913 had been to at least some degree subjective. Even the "authoritative" end-of-the-year amateur rankings issued by such groups as the United States Lawn Tennis Association were based on judgments made by men and women and not on mathematical formulas assigning points for wins or losses.

The Iditarod

It is an annual race in Akaska where mushers and teams of dogs cover about 1,151 miles (1,853 km) in eight to fifteen days. Frequently teams race through blizzards causing whiteout conditions, and sub-zero weather and gale-force winds which can cause the wind chill to reach -100 °F (-75 °C). The Iditarod is regarded as a symbolic link to the early history of the state, and is connected to many traditions commemorating the legacy of dog mushing.