Bridge at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 16/05/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_World_Mind_Sports_Games


00:01:04 1 Events
00:01:27 1.1 Bridge
00:02:54 1.2 Chess
00:03:11 1.3 Draughts
00:03:38 1.4 Go
00:04:03 1.5 Xiangqi
00:04:41 2 Medals
00:05:02 3 See also



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The first World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) were held in Beijing, China from October 3 to 18, 2008, about two months after the Olympic Games. They were sponsored and organised by the International Mind Sports Association with the General Administration of Sport of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sport.Five mind sports participated in the first Games: bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), go (weiqi), and xiangqi (Chinese chess). Thirty-five gold medals were contested by 2,763 competitors from 143 countries.According to the World Bridge Federation, it incorporated the World Team Olympiad (1960–2004) and some established youth events in the Games "as the stepping stone on the path of introducing a third kind of Olympic Games (after the 'regular' Olympics and the Paralympics)".