| For a list of all squads that appeared in the final tournament, see 1966 FIFA World Cup squads. |
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| The Six Nations Championship, held every year in February and March, is Ireland's only annual tournament. |
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| In qualifying matches, Ireland defeated Russia and Georgia to advance to the 2003 tournament. |
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| This meant Ireland were able to compete in the ICC Trophy for the first time in 1994 and they finished seventh in the tournament. |
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| Whereas Ireland had only one match guaranteed in the tournament before, they now had more fixtures against English county sides. |
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| These two results were sufficient to advance Ireland to the Super 8 stage of the tournament. |
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| Ireland hosted a quadrangular tournament in Dublin and Belfast in July involving the West Indies, the Netherlands, and Scotland. |
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| The West Indies were declared tournament winners because of a bonus point won against the Netherlands. |
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| Later that month, the King was unhorsed in a tournament and was badly injured and it seemed for a time that his life was in danger. |
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| His misplay in the bridge tournament was penalized when it was noted he'd broken the rules. |
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| The Glasgow Cup was a once popular tournament, which was competed for by Rangers, Celtic, Clyde, Partick Thistle and Queen's Park. |
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| In December 2012, the former Cayman Open will be replaced by the Women's World Championships, the largest tournament in the world. |
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| The island hosts its own tournament each year with teams from all over Europe visiting the island. |
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| The young Northern Ireland player now meets Ryan Day for a place in the last sixteen of the ranking tournament. |
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| It was the second time Qatar had hosted the tournament, with the other instance being the 1988 edition. |
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| Instead, he played the chalk and selected the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament. |
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| For the 2014 World Cup, the German team used white shorts rather than the traditional black due to FIFA's kit clashing rule for the tournament. |
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| Pakistani squash player Mir Zaman Gul knocked Hill unconscious with his cowardly headbutt in a squash tournament. |
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| At this multitable tournament, 36 players will begin playing in four tables of nine players each. |
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| For that tournament, Germany was in the only group of three teams and thus only played four qualifying games. |
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| Wales made its only World Cup finals tournament appearance in the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden. |
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| She'll be playing in the tournament this year after winning the qualifier. |
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| Real Madrid is the most successful club in the competition's history, having won the tournament 11 times, including its first five seasons. |
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| For the 1908 Olympic Games in London, the FA persuaded the IOC to include a football tournament, which they organised. |
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| Great Britain won the first Olympics football tournament in 1908, which was hosted in London. |
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| The football tournament was organised by the FA and all the matches were played at White City Stadium. |
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| Woodward, who scored in the previous final, was captain for this tournament. |
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| There was no football tournament at the 1932 games, so Britain's return to Olympic football came at the 1936 Summer Olympics. |
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| The 1948 tournament, which was hosted in London, was the team's most successful. |
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| Since 1992, the UEFA U21 Championship has acted as the qualifying tournament for the UEFA nations, which each of the Home Nations enter. |
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| Due to the success of the London 2012 Olympic bid, the United Kingdom gained the right to enter a team in the football tournament as host nation. |
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| Great Britain were placed in group A for the Olympic tournament prior to the draw. |
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| The 16 top ranked teams spread across the biggest domestic leagues qualified directly for the tournament group stage. |
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| The tournament proper begins with a group stage of 32 teams, divided into eight groups. |
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| The maximum number of teams that an association can field in the tournament has also been increased from four to five. |
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| Prior to the 2017 tournament, two points were awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss. |
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| A review on how well the system worked will take place following the tournament. |
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| Although this achievement has long been a feature of the tournament, it was not until 2006 that a physical Triple Crown trophy was awarded. |
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| Since the inaugural Six Nations tournament in 2000, only England and Ireland have avoided the Wooden Spoon award. |
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| Several individual competitions take place under the umbrella of the tournament. |
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| He surpassed countryman Mike Gibson in the first round of the 2012 tournament against Wales. |
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| Wales hold the record for the longest time without conceding a try at 358 minutes in the 2013 tournament. |
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| A new main title sponsor is to be sought for the 2018 tournament and beyond. |
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| In 1907, Cornwall won the county tournament and went on to represent Britain at Rugby union at the 1908 Summer Olympics. |
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| In August 2016, UEFA announced changes in the access list of the tournament, driven to avoid the creation of European Super League. |
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| During this period, Wales won three Championships, but its greatest victory happened during the 1933 tournament when they finished last. |
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| Rugby union has a particular hold on the national psyche of Wales, especially the Six Nations tournament. |
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| A collaboration between KeSPA and MLG brought a selection of StarCraft professionals to the USA for an exhibition tournament. |
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| A nine Test triangular tournament involving England, South Africa and Australia was set up. |
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| The most prestigious tournament of Ireland is the Irish Open, which is held on courses in the four provinces. |
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| Three European schools participate in the tournament, with three 'champions' representing each school in the deadly tasks. |
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| However, they did not progress beyond the first round in the 2005 tournament. |
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| In 2015, Australia won the 2015 Cricket World Cup, losing just one game for the tournament. |
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| The tournament was disappointing for Scotland, going out in the group stage without winning a single match. |
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| Scotland started the tournament badly by losing three of their five group games. |
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| In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies and expanded to sixteen teams. |
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| A total of twenty teams have competed in the eleven editions of the tournament, with fourteen competing in the 2015 tournament. |
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| The West Indies won a second consecutive World Cup tournament, defeating the hosts England by 92 runs in the final. |
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| With two defeats from the tournament Scotland finished bottom of the table. |
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| With The Clash of the Nations tournament over, the Celtic nations were to play each other once over October and November in a new competition. |
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| Scotland joined the prestigious European Nations Cup tournament in 2003, now being regarded as the seventh best national nation. |
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| No Qualification was required for the Bravehearts for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup due to participating in the 2008 tournament. |
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| India and Pakistan jointly hosted the 1987 tournament, the first time that the competition was held outside England. |
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| Pakistan overcame a dismal start in the tournament to eventually defeat England by 22 runs in the final and emerge as winners. |
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| Brough played at his best throughout the tournament, earning him the 'Player of the Tournament' award. |
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| After making the finals of the 2013 tournament, Scotland automatically qualified for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup. |
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| Ireland were included in the tournament held in England and were placed in Group 2 alongside Moldova and Morocco. |
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| Ireland have been granted automatic entry to the tournament due to their strong showing in the 2008 World Cup. |
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| The opening round of the Presidents' Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament went according to Hoyle. |
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| Rugby union is increasing in popularity, especially with the annual Safari Sevens tournament. |
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| The tournament is the world's third largest with only the FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympics exceeding it. |
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| On 13 February, the opening of the 2015 tournament was celebrated with a Google Doodle. |
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| The Scottish Volleyball Association's annual general meeting is also held at the same time as tournament. |
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| Prizes were awarded the next morning and the tournament continued another day. |
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| The most recent edition of the tournament was the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. |
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| There has been a football tournament at every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except at the 1932 games in Los Angeles. |
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| The current champion is Germany, which won its fourth title at the 2014 tournament in Brazil. |
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| Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. |
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| West Auckland won the tournament and returned in 1911 to successfully defend their title. |
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| The tournament also saw the return of 1930 champions Uruguay, who had boycotted the previous two World Cups. |
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| Seven teams have competed in every finals tournament, five of which have won the title. |
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| An equivalent tournament for women's football, the FIFA Women's World Cup, was first held in 1991 in China. |
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| The table below provides an overview of the performances of teams over past World Cups, as of the end of group stage of the 2015 tournament. |
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| In 1970, Brazil's third victory in the tournament entitled them to keep the trophy permanently. |
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| Since the second World Cup in 1934, qualifying tournaments have been held to thin the field for the final tournament. |
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| From the 1938 World Cup onwards, host nations receive automatic qualification to the final tournament. |
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| The 2002 FIFA World Cup, hosted jointly by South Korea and Japan, was the first one held in Asia, and the only tournament with multiple hosts. |
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| The decision on who will host the World Cup is usually made six or seven years in advance of the tournament. |
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| The rotation policy was introduced after the controversy surrounding Germany's victory over South Africa in the vote to host the 2006 tournament. |
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| This is partly to avoid a similar scenario to the bidding process for the 2014 tournament, where Brazil was the only official bidder. |
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| Recently the Twenty20 Champions League was formed as a tournament for domestic clubs of various countries. |
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| The format for the tournament will have just one group so each team will play 9 group games before 2 semi finals and a final. |
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| The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams. |
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| New Zealand are the current champions, having defeated Australia in the final of the 2015 tournament in England. |
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| The tournament is administered by World Rugby, the sport's international governing body. |
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| Sixteen teams were invited to participate in the inaugural tournament in 1987, however since 1999 twenty teams have taken part. |
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| In Estonia, teams gather over the winter for the annual Ice Cricket tournament. |
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| However, in May 2016, the ICC put forward the idea of having a tournament in 2018, with South Africa being the possible host. |
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| It expanded to the Five Nations in 1910, when France joined the tournament. |
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| The inaugural tournament, jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand, was held in May and June 1987, with sixteen nations taking part. |
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| The subsequent 1991 tournament was hosted by England, with matches played throughout Britain, Ireland and France. |
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| After upsetting Australia in the opening match, South Africa continued to advance through the tournament until they met New Zealand in the final. |
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| The tournament in 1999 was hosted by Wales with matches also being held throughout the rest of the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. |
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| Six tournaments have so far been played, and only the West Indies, who currently hold the title, has won the tournament on multiple occasions. |
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| The 2011 tournament was awarded to New Zealand in November 2005, ahead of bids from Japan and South Africa. |
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| In the 2015 edition of tournament, hosted by England, New Zealand once again won the final, this time against established rivals, Australia. |
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| She got a bye into the second round of the tennis tournament. |
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| The third tournament was held in 2010, hosted by the countries making up the West Indies cricket team. |
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| The fourth tournament, the 2012 World Twenty20, was held in Asia for the first time, with all matches played in Sri Lanka. |
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| The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup. |
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| As a result of the expansion to four teams, the tournament was renamed The Rugby Championship. |
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| Bahrain founded its union a year later, while in 1975 the Dubai Sevens, the Gulf's leading rugby tournament, was created. |
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| The first tournament was in 2007 in South Africa where India defeated Pakistan in the final. |
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| The 2010 ICC World Twenty20 tournament was held in West Indies in May 2010, where England defeated Australia by 7 wickets. |
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| It was the first time the T20 World Cup tournament took place in an Asian country. |
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| The two finalists of the 2007 WCL Division One tournament, Kenya and Scotland, qualified for the World Twenty20 later in the year. |
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| A separate qualification tournament was implemented for the 2009 World Twenty20, and has been retained since then. |
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| This is applicable in all stages of the tournament, having been implemented during the 2009 tournament. |
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| After South Africa in 2007, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka hosted the tournament in 2009, 2010 and 2012 respectively. |
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| In December 2015, Tim Anderson, the ICC's head of global development, suggested that a future tournament be hosted by the United States. |
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| Now I got nothing goin on but a fockin ping-pong tournament with Kurt Cobain, who fockin cheats, man, like it's gonna do him any fockin good. |
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| However, it was later confirmed that the tournament would definitely take place in the country. |
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| The initial four group format is the same as that used at the 2007 tournament. |
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| The world's oldest golf tournament, and golf's first major, is The Open Championship, played both in England and Scotland. |
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| The tournament was ultimately won by India, who defeated Great Britain to claim the country's first gold medal as an independent nation. |
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| Going into the 2003 World Cup, England were one of the tournament favourites. |
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| Ticket sales during the pool stages and finals of the same tournament was less than a million. |
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| England won all their subsequent matches during the tournament, with the exception of the Irish match, which was postponed until October. |
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| Now considered favourites to win the tournament, as well as possibly a Grand Slam, England defeated Wales, Italy and Scotland. |
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| The win gave England its first ever Rugby World Cup, and broke the Southern Hemisphere's dominance of the tournament in the process. |
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| France joined the tournament in the 1900s and in 1910 the term Five Nations first appeared. |
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| This however resulted in only one new side qualifying for the tournament, Western Samoa replacing Tonga. |
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| In the event, there was only one change from the 1987 tournament, with Western Samoa appearing in place of Tonga. |
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| In World Cup years, an abbreviated tournament is held in which each team plays the others only once. |
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| The second tournament took place in 1994, and from that time through 2014 was held every four years. |
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| As a result, much media attention was drawn right from the beginning of this tournament. |
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| The Stadio Olimpico in Rome had been proposed as the venue to host the final and the first match of the tournament. |
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| After England were appointed tournament hosts on 28 July 2009, the proposed stadia for the tournament were revealed. |
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| Each year, a grass court tournament and an induction ceremony honoring new Hall of Fame members are hosted on its grounds. |
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| The timing of the draw drew criticism due to its distance from the tournament. |
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| In tournament play, the chair umpire announces the winner of the set and the overall score. |
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| Game points, set points, and match points are not part of official scoring and are not announced by the chair umpire in tournament play. |
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| However, Wasps won the final 25 points to 9 in front of a tournament record 81,076 fans. |
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| The tournament began on 17 October 2014, with Harlequins playing Castres Olympique in the first ever Champions Cup game. |
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| In 2003 the tournament was revived and England comfortably won, beating her old rivals plus Scotland, Ireland and Russia. |
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| Common tournament configurations include men's singles, women's singles, and doubles, where two players play on each side of the net. |
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| England thrashed their opponents to win their first tournament title since the 2004 European Nations Cup. |
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| England replaced Great Britain in competing in the Rugby League Four Nations which replaced the previous Tri Nations tournament. |
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| In the past the tournament has been axed and revived many times, and it was stopped for six years because of the Second World War. |
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| Since then the tournament has run for some seasons, but never for more than five years at a time. |
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| Wimbledon is a tournament that has a major place in the British cultural calendar. |
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| This came against eventual tournament winners the Kiwis by over twenty points and dominated the entire match. |
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| They failed to make the final of the tournament for the second year in succession. |
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| In addition to the hosts, the tournament featured teams from Britain, Australia and New Zealand. |
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| Australia won that tournament and in 1977 it was decided that Great Britain should once more compete as a single entity. |
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| Australia hosted the tournament and New Zealand were crowned champions for the first time. |
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| The Madrid Masters moved to May and onto clay courts, and a new tournament in Shanghai took over Madrid's former indoor October slot. |
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| The teams that are hosting the tournament automatically qualify for the finals. |
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| In 2017 the final tournament will follow the same format as the 2013 event. |
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| The final was in fact the lowest attendance of the 1972 tournament as the French public seemed disinterested in any game not involving France. |
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| Wales, including as Great Britain, has competed in all but the 2008 tournament. |
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| This also led to an increased movement to having the tournament staged in Australia. |
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| In addition, commencing in 2015, the tournament would also be expanded to six teams. |
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| The first tournament structures developed and competitions were held between various burghs. |
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| The new name reflected the addition of a new season ending tournament, the Dubai World Championship, held at the end of November in Dubai. |
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| In these instances, the amounts are converted into euro at the exchange rate for the week that the tournament is played. |
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| He retired from tournament golf in 2004 at the age of sixty, having won a number of events at senior level. |
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| The Premier events were introduced in 2009 replacing the previous Tier I and II tournament categories. |
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| However, three successive bogeys on his subsequent three holes ended his challenge and he finished the tournament in a tie for eighth place. |
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| This decision, questioned by many, paid off when Poulter emerged as the top scorer in the tournament. |
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| Faldo's relationship with Bercher, a Swiss PR agent, began in 1998 when they met at the European Masters golf tournament. |
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| At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Rose won gold at the men's individual tournament. |
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| In September 2006 at the Canadian Open, Rose led a PGA Tour tournament going into the final round for the first time. |
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| Furthermore, he did not play any tournament in 2013 except the world championship, which he won. |
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| He finished the tournament in a tie for 20th place and 5th on the overall FedEx Cup Standings. |
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| In 2004, she hosted a celebrity fourball tournament for the charity Sport Relief. |
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| The Challenge Belt was retired in 1870, when Young Tom Morris was allowed to keep it for winning the tournament three consecutive times. |
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| In Britain the tournament is best known by its official title, The Open Championship. |
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| Until 2014, the PGA Tour referred to the tournament as the British Open, and many American media outlets continue to do so. |
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| If any of the British teams or the Irish team beat the other three in a tournament, then it is awarded the Triple Crown. |
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| However, when the tournament reverted to a knockout formula in 1969, he did not prosper. |
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| He's a total roxor. He's got the highest APM over anyone. Actions per minute. This tournament is his whole life. |
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| The tournament is also notable for the absence of sponsor advertising around the courts. |
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| Wimbledon is considered the world's premier tennis tournament and the priority of the Club is to maintain its leadership. |
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| From 1922, the prior year's champions were required to play all the rounds, like other tournament competitors. |
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| It has been announced that the 2017 tournament will begin on Monday 3 July. |
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| In 1963, the first international tournament was held in Eastbourne, England. |
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| They came into the tournament highly ranked, but with a little bit of an asterisk as their last two wins had been unconvincing. |
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| Since the 2001 tournament 32 players have been given seedings in the Gentlemen's and Ladies' singles, 16 teams in the doubles events. |
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| For the first time during the 2009 tournament, players were referred to on scoreboards by both their first and last names. |
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| Applications must be posted to arrive at the AELTC by the last day of December in the year prior to the tournament. |
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| In 1970 a tournament was created to reunite the top male players of the season, which is today called the ATP World Tour Finals. |
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| Jack Crawford, Lew Hoad, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams won the first three events, but lost the last grand slam tournament. |
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| Jamaica, which has lost only once in the tournament, decided not to play the 2011 tournament. |
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| Played in late June to early July, it is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. |
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| The ITF determines the host countries for all possible matchups before each year's tournament. |
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| If there is a tie after the regulation number of holes in a professional tournament, a playoff takes place between all tied players. |
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| She was seeded number one for the 1969 US Open but withdrew before the tournament began. |
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| Fitzsimmons entered the tournament, and knocked out four opponents on his way to winning the competition. |
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| The tournament featured 6 boxers including Andre Dirrell, Mikkel Kessler, Arthur Abraham, Jermain Taylor, Andre Ward and Froch. |
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| Following his victory over Abraham, Froch entered the semifinal stage of the tournament. |
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| Honda also sponsors The Honda Classic golf tournament and is a sponsor of Major League Soccer. |
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| When a tournament is played, the previous year's results are removed from the rankings. |
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| Additional calculations can be used to place higher significance on a player's recent tournament scores. |
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| York International 9s is a rugby league nines tournament which takes place in York each year. |
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| It was broadcast on BBC until 1982, with the 1983 tournament blacked out due to a technician's strike. |
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| The tournament was broadcast on ITV and originally came from the Fulcrum Centre, Slough before switching to Festival Hall, Basildon. |
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| The WDC players decided that if they were not going to be recognised by the BDO they would no longer play in the Embassy tournament. |
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| The European Championship is a tournament that allows the top players in Europe to compete against the top players in the PDC Order of Merit. |
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| The Triple Crown is awarded to any of the Home Nations who beats the other three in that tournament. |
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| The Great Britain men's team won the hockey tournament at the 1988 Olympics, while the women's team repeated the success in the 2016 Games. |
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| The US Open was a tournament introduced in 2007 to replace the World Series of Darts. |
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| The tournament was reduced down to Player's Championship status for the 2009 and 2010 editions. |
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| York has also hosted the UK Snooker Championship, which is the second biggest ranking tournament in the sport, at the York Barbican Centre. |
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| The stadium hosted the Gold medal matches at the 2012 Olympic Games football tournament. |
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| At the 1974 World Cup finals in West Germany, Scotland achieved their most impressive performance at a World Cup tournament. |
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| Since 2012 and until 2019, it is the venue for the Masters snooker tournament, held every January. |
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| Before the start of the Premier League tournament, Taylor unveiled some new black 26g darts. |
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| Taylor began the tournament sluggishly, losing his singles matches against Ken MacNeil of Canada and Gary Mawson of the United States. |
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| At the tournament, he dropped only three legs in his first three matches before getting lucky in the last 16 against Brendan Dolan. |
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| This was the first time that the Dutchman had beaten him in the tournament in 21 attempts. |
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| This was the first time that Wade had beaten Taylor in a major televised knockout tournament. |
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| Part won the 2008 PDC World Championship and became the second player after Taylor to have won the tournament more than once. |
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| The first win for Van Barneveld in a televised tournament after the 2008 UK Open came almost six years later. |
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| New manager Craig Brown successfully guided Scotland to the 1996 European Championship tournament. |
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| This began a period of six months in which Davis and Griffiths contested almost all the major tournament finals. |
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| Chillin' with the Chet-meister waiting for the rest of the brodeo to show up so the foosball tournament can begin. |
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| At the age of 17 years and 358 days he became the youngest ever winner of a professional ranking tournament. |
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| During the tournament, O'Sullivan compiled ten century breaks, including a break of 146, the highest of the tournament. |
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| Despite the Africans' absence, there was another new record number of entries for the qualifying tournament, with 70 nations taking part. |
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| O'Sullivan went out of the tournament in the next round, having lost against Fergal O'Brien. |
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| O'Sullivan defeated Liu Chuang, Mark Williams, Liang Wenbo and Stephen Hendry en route to the final of the tournament. |
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| Portugal would not qualify again until 1986, while North Korea's next appearance was at the 2010 tournament. |
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| Over the tournament as a whole, O'Sullivan won 36 of the 47 frames he played, and compiled ten century breaks. |
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| They also became the first World Cup winning team not to win its first game in the tournament. |
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| Since the admission of Italy in 2000, the tournament has been known by its current name, the Six Nations Championship. |
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| In the hockey tournament, the Irish team finished second, behind England and ahead of Scotland and Wales. |
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| The organisers had proposed a similar division in the football tournament, but the BOA demurred. |
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| Richard first grew close to her at a tournament held in her native Navarre. |
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| At UEFA Euro 2016, the team made its first appearance at the European tournament and reached the second round. |
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| The first country outside of the traditional rugby nations of SANZAAR or the Six Nations to be awarded the hosting rights was Japan, who will host the 2019 tournament. |
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| Against all odds, the inexperienced new player won the tournament. |
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| Both Djokovic and Haase attended an antigambling session during the tournament in Miami this past March, conducted by a former member of organized crime, Michael Franzese. |
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| All four are hoping to enjoy some quiet time at the women's bass fishing tournament, but durned if wimpy Talmadge and grumpy Mel don't tag along and upset everything. |
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| The Gaelic Athletic Association, fair play to them, want absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with that thingumajig football tournament in America. |
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| The world's oldest tennis tournament, the Wimbledon championships, first occurred in 1877, and today the event takes place over two weeks in late June and early July. |
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| The oldest golf tournament in the world, and the first major championship in golf, The Open Championship, is played annually on the weekend of the third Friday in July. |
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| At the time, Geoffrey of Brittany had been quarrelling violently with Richard and Philip planned to use this, but Geoffrey's death in 1186 in a tournament killed the plot. |
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| The city also has professional rugby, ice hockey and cricket teams, and the Aegon Nottingham Open, an international tennis tournament on the ATP and WTA tours. |
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| They participated at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, defeating Afghanistan to claim their Gold Medal in the first ever cricket tournament held in the Asian Games. |
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| Many of the intricate designs etched into suits of Greenwich armour, including King Henry's own personal tournament harnesses, were based on designs by Holbein. |
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| His performance as Tommy Riordan, who is trained by his father to fight in a mixed martial arts tournament against his brother, gained praise from critics. |
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| The most important tournament in rugby union is the Rugby World Cup, a men's tournament that has taken place every four years since 1987 among national rugby union teams. |
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| The first tournament, in which 16 teams competed for the title, was broadcast to 17 countries with an accumulated total of 230 million television viewers. |
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| In November at the end of the tennis year, the world's top eight players compete in the ATP World Tour Finals, a tournament with a rotating locale. |
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| Davis was world champion for twenty years, retiring unbeaten after claiming his fifteenth world title in 1946 when the tournament was reinstated after the Second World War. |
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| The tournament was replaced with a US Open event in 2007 which was screened in the UK on digital television channel Challenge TV, with Nuts TV showing the 2008 tournament. |
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| The tournament has served as a qualifier for the World Championships. |
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| The score achieved for each and every hole of the round or tournament is added to produce the total score, and the player with the lowest score wins in stroke play. |
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| The Six Nations Championship played between the Home Nations, Italy and France is the premier international tournament in the northern hemisphere. |
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| However, the team did not win any matches in UEFA Euro 1992, drawing with tournament winners Denmark, and later with France, before being eliminated by host nation Sweden. |
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| Brown again guided Scotland to qualification for a major tournament in 1998, and Scotland were drawn against Brazil in the opening game of the 1998 World Cup. |
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| It was subsequently equalled by Croatia in the 1998 tournament. |
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| In February 1990, months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the draw for the 1992 European Championship qualifying tournament saw East Germany and West Germany drawn together. |
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| Nevertheless, German captain and goalkeeper Oliver Kahn won the Golden Ball, the first time in the World Cup that a goalkeeper was named the best player of the tournament. |
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| It was the first time Germany had defeated Italy in a major tournament. |
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| In 2010, the away colours then changed back to a black shirt and white shorts, but at the tournament the team dressed up in the black shorts from the home kit. |
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| A concurrent women's tournament is also held, the FA Women's Cup. |
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| The competition was traditionally a pure knockout tournament. |
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| With Australia sending a weakened team and the South African bowlers being ineffective England dominated the tournament winning four of their six matches. |
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| The tournament was further expanded in 1996, with two groups of six teams. |
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| The International Cricket Council's executive committee votes for the hosts of the tournament after examining the bids made by the nations keen to hold a Cricket World Cup. |
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| The ICC decided that England should host the first tournament because it was ready to devote the resources required to organising the inaugural event. |
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| This also means that at least 2 Test playing nations will play in the qualifying tournament and therefore a Test nation could miss the World Cup for the first time. |
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| In addition, the opening match of the tournament will be held at The Oval. |
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| The West Indies won the tournament by defeating Sri Lanka in the final, winning its first international tournament since the 2004 Champions Trophy. |
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| The fifth tournament, the 2014 ICC World Twenty20, was hosted by Bangladesh, and was won by Sri Lanka, who became the first team to play in three finals. |
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| It was intended that the tournament would be an annual event. |
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| In June 2006, The Daily Telegraph reported that the Marylebone Cricket Club and Surrey CCC had put in a joint bid to host the tournament at Lord's and The Oval. |
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| Lord's also plays host to the finals of the National Village Cricket Competition, the MCC Universities Challenge tournament and the Royal London Cup. |
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| The Australian media criticised the competition early in the tournament as the smaller nations were crushed by the rugby superpowers by 60 points or more. |
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| However, Wilkinson reclaimed the record during the 2011 Six Nations Championship, a tournament during which he came off the bench in each of England's five games. |
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| The tournament was hosted by England from 18 September to 31 October. |
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| This was the first World Cup with no new teams to the tournament. |
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| Etihad Stadium, as it was known for football sponsorship purposes, would be called 'Manchester City Stadium' by organisers for the duration of the tournament. |
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| Each country was allowed a squad of 31 players for the tournament. |
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| New Zealand wing Julian Savea scored the most tries, eight, equalling the record for one tournament set by his compatriot Jonah Lomu and South African Bryan Habana. |
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| Before and during the match England were accusing New Zealand of being soft, however after the match media outlets were calling England the biggest losers of the tournament. |
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| The tournament is decided on a league system but with both Great Britain and Australia undefeated, the last match became a virtual World Cup Final. |
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| After its recovery, the trophy was reinstated for the 2000 tournament. |
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| At the 2003 Open Championship at Royal St George's, Faldo shot a fine third round of 67 and was briefly in contention for the tournament during the final round. |
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| In his first tournament start since his win, at the Travelers Championship two weeks later, Rose led by three shots entering the final round, but fell away to a tie for ninth. |
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| The host broadcaster, as well as British and American broadcasters Sky Sports and NBC Sports, utilized a total of 175 cameras during the 2016 tournament. |
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| Gold medals were presented by the Duchess of Atholl to each member of the teams at the conclusion of the Glasgow Herald tournament on Saturday afternoon. |
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| The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and is widely considered the most prestigious. |
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| Since 2015, the championships have begun one week later than in previous years, extending the gap between the tournament and the French Open from two to three weeks. |
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| Additionally the Stuttgart Open men's tournament converted to a grass surface and was rescheduled from July to June, extending the grass court season. |
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| The tournament was conceived in 1899 by four members of the Harvard University tennis team who wished to challenge the British to a tennis competition. |
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| The tournament was initially titled the International Lawn Tennis Challenge although it soon became known as the Davis Cup, after Dwight Davis' trophy. |
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| The playoff round winners play in the World Group for the next year's tournament, while the losers play in Group I of their respective regional zone. |
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