2014 in sports
Calendar by month -- November
Table:
Date

Sport

Venue/Event

Status

Winner/s

2

Formula One

2014 United States Grand Prix

International

Lewis Hamilton ( Mercedes)

2

Marathon

2014 New York City Marathon (WMM)

International

Men: Wilson Kipsang
Women: Mary Keitany

8–11

Ice hockey

2015 IIHF Women's World Championship Qualification Series

International

Japan qualified to participate in the 2015 IIHF Women's World Championship

8–16

Weightlifting

2014 World Weightlifting Championships

International

China

9

Formula One

2014 Brazilian Grand Prix

International

Nico Rosberg ( Mercedes)

9

Motorcycle racing

2014 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

International

MotoGP: Marc Márquez ( Honda)
Moto2: Thomas Lüthi ( Interwetten Racing)
Moto3: Jack Miller ( Red Bull KTM Ajo)

9–16

Tennis

2014 ATP World Tour Finals

International

Singles: Novak Djokovic
Doubles: Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan

13–24

Amateur boxing

2014 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships

International

Russia

14–21

Squash

2014 PSA World Championship

International

Ramy Ashour

14–23

Multi-sport

2014 Asian Beach Games

Continental

Thailand

14–30

Multi-sport

2014 Central American and Caribbean Games

Regional

Cuba

16

WTCC

2014 Guia Race of Macau

International

Race 1: José María López ( Citroën Total WTCC)
Race 2: Robert Huff ( Lada Sport)

22

Formula E

2014 Putrajaya ePrix

International

Sam Bird ( Virgin Racing)

22–20 December

Association football

/ 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup

Regional

Thailand

23

Formula One

2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

International

Lewis Hamilton ( Mercedes)

25–7 December

Snooker

2014 UK Championship

International

Ronnie O'Sullivan

28–13 December

Tennis

/// 2014 International Premier Tennis League season

Continental

Indian Aces

29–7 December

Field hockey

2014 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy

International

Argentina

30

Canadian football

2014 Grey Cup

Domestic

Calgary Stampeders
Grey Cup Most Valuable Player: Bo Levi Mitchell (Calgary Stampeders)

30–6 December

Association football

2014 International Women's Club Championship

International

São José

Drawing on the following table and the textual context listed below.

State the answer to the question: What is the sport of the venue/event whose winner sits on the Shoe4Africa school board with her husband Charles ? Output only the correct answer as {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}. Use only the information given.

Formula One ( also known as Formula 1 or F1 ) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile ( FIA ) and owned by the Formula One Group . The World Drivers ' Championship , which became the FIA Formula One World Championship in 1981 , has been one of the premier forms of racing around the world since its inaugural season in 1950 . The word formula in the name refers to the set of rules to which all participants ' cars must conform . A Formula One season consists of a series of races , known as Grands Prix ( French for 'grand prizes ' or 'great prizes ' ) , which take place worldwide on purpose-built circuits and on public roads . The results of each race are evaluated using a points system to determine two annual World Championships : one for drivers , the other for constructors . Drivers must hold valid Super Licences , the highest class of racing licence issued by the FIA . The races must run on tracks graded 1 ( formerly A ) , the highest grade-rating issued by the FIA . Most events occur in rural locations on purpose-built tracks , but several events take place on city streets . Formula One cars are the fastest regulated road-course racing cars in the world , owing to very high cornering speeds achieved through the generation of large amounts of aerodynamic downforce . The cars underwent major changes in 2017 , allowing wider front and rear wings , and wider tyres , resulting in peak cornering forces near 6.5 lateral g and top speeds of up to approximately 350 km/h ( 215 mph ) . As of 2019 [ update ] the hybrid engines are limited in performance to a maximum of 15,000 rpm , the cars are very dependent on electronics and aerodynamics , suspension and tyres . Traction control and other driving aids have been banned since 2008 .
The 2014 United States Grand Prix ( formally the 2014 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix ) was a Formula One motor race held on 2 November at the Circuit of the Americas in Travis County near Austin , Texas . It was the 17th round of the 2014 Formula One season and the 36th running of the event held as part of the Formula One World Championship . The 56-lap race was won by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton after starting from second position . His teammate Nico Rosberg finished second and Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo came in third . It was Hamilton 's tenth victory of the season , his second at Austin , and the 32nd of his career . Rosberg won the pole position by recording the fastest lap in qualifying and maintained his start line advantage on the first lap . The race was neutralised by the deployment of the safety car on the same lap when Sergio Pérez made contact with Adrian Sutil and Kimi Räikkönen , and remained out for a further three laps . During the first period of the race , Hamilton ran close behind teammate Rosberg to conserve fuel but braked heavily through portions of the track to prevent brake glazing . After the two Mercedes cars made their pit stops for tyre changes , Hamilton drew closer to Rosberg , passed him for the lead of the race on lap 24 , and pulled away from his teammate . He remained the leader after the second round of pit stops to win . In the week running up to the Grand Prix , the Caterham and Marussia teams went into administration and were granted dispensation to miss the race , leaving the sport with only nine entered teams , the lowest number since the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix . Hamilton 's victory , his fifth consecutive of the season , enabled him to pull further clear from Rosberg at the top of the Drivers ' Championship , with Ricciardo 's third-place finish rendering him unable to challenge for the title .
Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton MBE HonFREng ( born 7 January 1985 ) is a British racing driver who races in Formula One for Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport . A six-time Formula One World Champion , he is widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers in the history of the sport , and considered by some to be the greatest of all time . [ note 2 ] He won his first World Drivers ' Championship with McLaren in 2008 , before moving to Mercedes in 2013 , with whom he has won a further five titles . One of the most successful drivers in the history of the sport , Hamilton 's six World Championship titles is the second-most of all time , as is his tally of 84 race victories and 151 podium finishes . He currently holds the records for the all-time most career points ( 3431 ) , the all-time most pole positions ( 88 ) , the most grand slams in a season ( 3 ) and the most points in a season ( 413 ) . [ note 3 ] Born and raised in Stevenage , Hertfordshire , Hamilton enjoyed a successful ascent up the racing ladder and was signed to the McLaren young driver programme in 1998 . This later resulted in a Formula One drive with McLaren in 2007 , making Hamilton the first and only black driver to race in the sport . [ note 4 ] That season , Hamilton set numerous records as he finished runner-up to Kimi Räikkönen by one point . The following season , he won his maiden title in dramatic fashion - making a crucial overtake on the last corner of the last lap in the last race of the season - to become the then-youngest Formula One World Champion in history . After four more years with McLaren without finishing higher than fourth in the drivers ' standings , Hamilton signed with Mercedes in 2013 , reuniting with his childhood karting teammate , Nico Rosberg . Changes to regulations for 2014 mandating the use of turbo-hybrid engines contributed to the start of a highly successful period for Hamilton , during which he has won five further World Championship titles . Hamilton won consecutive titles in 2014 and 2015 during an intense and sometimes volatile rivalry with teammate Nico Rosberg , to match his hero Ayrton Senna 's three World Championships .
Mercedes-Benz , through its subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Limited , is currently involved in Formula One as a constructor under the name of Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team . The team is based in Brackley , Northamptonshire , United Kingdom , using a German licence . Mercedes-Benz competed in the pre-war European Championship winning three titles and debuted in Formula One in 1954 , running a team for two years . The team is also known by their nickname , the Silver Arrows . After winning their first race at the 1954 French Grand Prix , driver Juan Manuel Fangio won another three Grands Prix to win the 1954 Drivers ' Championship and repeated this success in 1955 . Despite winning two Drivers ' Championships , Mercedes-Benz withdrew from motor racing in response to the 1955 Le Mans disaster and did not return to Formula One until rejoining as an engine supplier in association with Ilmor , a British independent high-performance autosport engineering company later acquired by Mercedes , in 1994 . In addition to its factory team , Mercedes currently supplies engines to Racing Point and Williams . The manufacturer has collected more than 180 wins as an engine supplier and is ranked second in Formula One history . Seven Constructors ' and 11 Drivers ' Championships have been won with Mercedes-Benz engines . Mercedes has become one of the most successful teams in recent Formula One history , having achieved consecutive Drivers ' and Constructors ' Championships from 2014 to 2019 . In 2014 , Mercedes managed 11 one-two finishes beating McLaren 's 1988 record of 10 . The record was extended the following year with 12 one-two finishes .
The marathon is a long-distance race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres ( approximately 26 miles 385 yards ) , usually run as a road race . The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides , a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens , who reported the victory . The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy . There are also wheelchair divisions . The marathon was one of the original modern Olympic events in 1896 , though the distance did not become standardized until 1921 . More than 800 marathons are held throughout the world each year , with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes , as larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants .
The 44th New York City Marathon took place on November 2 , 2014 . It was won by Wilson Kipsang of Kenya with a time of 2:10:59 and Mary Keitany of Kenya with a time of 2:25:07 . It was the largest marathon ever , with a record number of 50869 starters and 50564 finishers , and an average finish time of 4:34:45 . With 50,564 finishers , the 2014 New York City Marathon broke the record for most finishers . The winds were exceptional this year , forcing race officials to move the start line of the wheelchair and handcycle competitions to the Brooklyn side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge , shortening the course to 23.2 miles . Kurt Fearnley of Australia won the men 's wheelchair division with a time of 1:30:55 , earning his fifth New York City win . Tatyana McFadden of Clarksville , Maryland successfully defended her title with a time of 1:42:16 on the shortened course , and , as a result , has become not only the sole person to have ever won four major marathons in a year ( Boston , London , Chicago , and New York City ) , but also the sole person to do so two years in a row . This was the first marathon for which Tata Consultancy Services was the title sponsor . In addition , the one-millionth finisher of the New York City Marathon ( since the marathon was first held in 1970 ) , Katherine Slingluff of Brooklyn , completed her race with a time of 4:43:36 .
The Abbott World Marathon Majors ( AWMM ) is a championship-style competition for marathon runners that started in 2006 . A points based competition founded on six major city marathon races recognised as the most high profile on the calendar , the series comprises annual races for the cities of Tokyo ( starting in 2013 , except 2020 ) , Boston , London , Berlin , Chicago and New York City ( except 2012 ) . In addition , each edition of the series recognises and includes the results of the major global championship marathon held in that year , usually on a one-off lapped course . These races are the biennial IAAF World Championships Marathon , and the quadrennial Olympic Games Marathon .
Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich ( born 15 March 1982 ) is a Kenyan athlete who specialises in long-distance running , competing in events ranging from 10 km to the marathon . He was the bronze medallist in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics . He is the former world record holder in the marathon with a time of 2:03:23 , which he set at the 2013 Berlin Marathon . He has run under 2 hours 4 minutes for the marathon on four separate occasions . Kipsang is a two-time winner of the Frankfurt Marathon ( 2010 and 2011 ) and has also won the London Marathon ( 2012 and 2014 ) , New York Marathon ( 2014 ) , and Tokyo Marathon ( 2017 ) . He holds the twelfth best time over the half marathon distance ( 58:59 minutes ) .
Mary Jepkosgei Keitany ( born 18 January 1982 ) is a Kenyan long distance runner . She is the world record holder in a women-only marathon , having won the 2017 London Marathon in a time of 2:17:01 . As of November 2019 , she sits third all-time at both the marathon and half marathon . Her former half marathon best of 1:05:50 ( 2011 ) lived three years as the women 's world record . She also has held the world record at 10 miles ( 50:05 minutes ) , 20 kilometres ( 1:02:36 ) , and 25 kilometres ( 1:19:53 ) , all of which were set in road races . In August 2018 she was honored by the Shoe4Africa foundation who funded and built the Mary Keitany Shoe4Africa school in Torokwonin , Baringo County , Kenya . She and her husband Charles sit on the Shoe4Africa school board .
Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice , usually in a rink , in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent 's net to score goals . The sport is known to be fast-paced and physical , with teams usually fielding six players at a time : one goaltender , and five players who skate the span of the ice trying to control the puck and score goals against the opposing team . Ice hockey is most popular in Canada , central and eastern Europe , the Nordic countries , Russia , and the United States . Ice hockey is the official national winter sport of Canada . In addition , ice hockey is the most popular winter sport in Belarus , Croatia , the Czech Republic , Finland , Latvia , Russia , Slovakia , Sweden , and Switzerland . North America 's National Hockey League ( NHL ) is the highest level for men 's ice hockey and the strongest professional ice hockey league in the world . The Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ) is the highest league in Russia and much of Eastern Europe . The International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ) is the formal governing body for international ice hockey , with the IIHF managing international tournaments and maintaining the IIHF World Ranking . Worldwide , there are ice hockey federations in 76 countries . In Canada , the United States , Nordic countries , and some other European countries the sport is known simply as hockey ; the name ice hockey is used in places where hockey more often refers to the more popular field hockey , such as countries in South America , Asia , Africa , Australasia , and some European countries including the United Kingdom , Ireland and the Netherlands . Ice hockey is believed to have evolved from simple stick and ball games played in the 18th and 19th centuries in the United Kingdom and elsewhere . These games were brought to North America and several similar winter games using informal rules were developed , such as shinny and ice polo .
The 2015 Women 's World Championship was the 16th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation . The competition also served as qualifications for the 2016 competition . United States defeated Canada in the gold medal game 7-5 , securing their sixth title . Finland won the bronze medal by beating Russia 4-1 .
The Japanese women 's national ice hockey team ( Japanese : アイスホッケー女子日本代表 Aisuhokkē Joshi Nippon Daihyō ) represents Japan at the International Ice Hockey Federation 's World Women 's Championships . The women 's national team is controlled by the Japan Ice Hockey Federation . Japan has 2,587 female players as of 2017 . The nickname of Japan women 's team is Smile Japan ( Japanese : スマイルジャパン Sumairu Japan ) .
Olympic weightlifting , or Olympic-style weightlifting , often simply referred to as weightlifting , is a sport in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates . The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk . The snatch is a wide-grip , one-move lift . The clean and jerk is a close-grip , two-move lift . Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each , and the combined total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category . Bodyweight categories are different for male and female competitors . A lifter who fails to complete at least one successful snatch and one successful clean and jerk also fails to total , and therefore receives an incomplete entry for the competition . The clean and press was once a competition lift , but was discontinued due to difficulties in judging proper form . In comparison with other strength sports , which test limit strength ( with or without lifting aids ) , weightlifting tests aspects of human ballistic limits ( explosive strength ) ; the lifts are therefore executed faster - and with more mobility and a greater range of motion during their execution - than other strength movements . The lifts performed in the sport of weightlifting , and in particular their component lifts ( e.g . squats , deadlifts , cleans ) , are commonly used by elite athletes in other sports to train for both explosive and functional strength .
The 2014 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Baluan Sholak Sports Palace , Almaty , Kazakhstan . The event took place from November 8 to 16 , 2014 .
China ( Chinese : 中国 ; pinyin : Zhōngguó ) , officially the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) , is a country in East Asia and is the world 's most populous country , with a population of around 1.428 billion in 2017 . Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers ( 3,700,000 sq mi ) , it is the third largest country by area . [ j ] Governed by the Communist Party of China , the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , [ k ] five autonomous regions , four direct-controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ) , and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau . China emerged as one of the world 's first civilizations , in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain . For millennia , China 's political system was based on hereditary monarchies , or dynasties , beginning with the semi-mythical Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE . Since then , China has expanded , fractured , and re-unified numerous times . In the 3rd century BCE , the Qin reunited core China and established the first Chinese empire . The succeeding Han dynasty , which ruled from 206 BCE until 220 CE , saw some of the most advanced technology at that time , including papermaking and the compass , along with agricultural and medical improvements . The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty ( 618-907 ) and Northern Song ( 960-1127 ) completed the Four Great Inventions . Tang culture spread widely in Asia , as the new Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and the Horn of Africa . Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution , when the Republic of China ( ROC ) replaced the Qing dynasty . China , as a whole , was ravaged by feudal warlordism and Japan during World War II .
The 2014 Brazilian Grand Prix ( formally the Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Petrobras do Brasil 2014 ) was a Formula One motor race held on 9 November at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo . It was the 18th ( and penultimate ) round of the 2014 Formula One season and the 42nd running of the event as part of the Formula One World Championship . The 71-lap race was won by Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg after starting from pole position . His teammate Lewis Hamilton finished second and Williams driver Felipe Massa came in third . It was Rosberg 's fifth victory of the season , his first in Brazil , and the eighth of his career . Rosberg won the pole position by setting the fastest lap in qualifying and maintained his advantage when the race started . Rosberg held a one-second advantage over Hamilton by the time of his first pit stop at the end of the seventh lap . Nico Hülkenberg led after Hamilton made his pit stop on lap eight and held it until Rosberg overtook him six laps later . Hamilton regained the lead upon Rosberg 's second pit stop twelve laps later but did not emerge in the lead after a spin at turn four during the additional lap he spent on the track . Despite blistered front tyres , Hamilton remained within reach of Rosberg by the time of the final pit stop cycle , and after it ended , Rosberg remained narrowly in front of Hamilton . Rosberg withstood pressure from his teammate for the rest of the race to secure the victory . The result allowed Rosberg to reduce Hamilton 's advantage at the top of the Drivers ' Championship to 17 points behind his teammate while Daniel Ricciardo secured third place in the standings despite retiring with a suspension issue .
Nico Erik Rosberg ( born 27 June 1985 ) is a German-Finnish former racing driver who won the 2016 Formula One World Championship driving for Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport . The only child of Keke Rosberg ( the 1982 Formula One World Champion ) and his German wife Sina Rosberg , he was raised primarily in the principality of Monaco . Rosberg began competitive go-kart racing at the age of six and began aiming for a career in Formula One four years later . He achieved early success , winning regional and national French championships , before moving to European-based series and world championships . At the age of sixteen , he progressed to car racing , winning the Formula BMW ADAC Championship with VIVA Racing in 2002 and claiming nine victories . He subsequently moved to the higher-tier Formula 3 Euro Series with Team Rosberg in 2003 and 2004 before winning the inaugural GP2 Series championship with ART Grand Prix in 2005 . Rosberg first drove in Formula One with Williams from 2006 to 2009 and achieved two podium finishes for the team in 2008 . For 2010 , he moved to Mercedes , partnering fellow German and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher . Rosberg took his first career win at the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix . He was the teammate of former karting friend and eventual six-time World Drivers ' Champion , Lewis Hamilton , from 2013 to 2016 , twice finishing as runner-up to his teammate before winning the title in 2016 . Rosberg announced his retirement from motor racing five days after clinching his maiden title , citing wanting to spend more time with his family and not wanting his driving ability to atrophy as the main factors behind his surprise decision . Overall he competed in 206 Grands Prix , winning 23 , securing 57 podium finishes , 30 pole positions , and amassing 1594.5 championship points .
Motorcycle racing ( also called moto racing and motorbike racing ) is the motorcycle sport of racing motorcycles . Major varieties include motorcycle road racing and off-road racing , both either on circuits or open courses , and track racing . Other categories include hill climbs , drag racing and land speed record trials .
The 2014 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth and last round of the 2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season . It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 9 November 2014 . In the MotoGP class , Valentino Rossi took his first pole position since the 2010 French Grand Prix . However , it was Marc Márquez who won the race , taking his thirteenth victory of the season , surpassing the previous premier class record of twelve wins set by Mick Doohan in 1997 . Rossi crossed the line in second place to take the runner-up spot in the championship , while the podium was completed by Dani Pedrosa . Further down the order , Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Iannone took the decision to swap bikes - on lap 20 - as light rain fell . Both riders struggled to get the bike stopped in the uncertain conditions and dropped down the order ; Iannone finished 22nd , while Lorenzo retired from the race . The Suzuki MotoGP team returned to the series in a wildcard appearance , ahead of a full-season entry in 2015 . Utilising the new Suzuki GSX-RR , Randy de Puniet retired from the race before the halfway mark . Drive M7 Aspar rider , Hiroshi Aoyama , rode an Open-specification Honda RC213V-RS and finished in fifteenth place . The race was also the Gresini team 's last race with Honda bikes ahead of their switch to Aprilia in 2015 . It was also the final race for the PBM chassis , as their team will switch to the British Superbike Championship from 2015 .
Marc Márquez Alentà ( born 17 February 1993 ) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time with eight Grand Prix world championships to his name - six of which are in the premier MotoGP class . Márquez races for Honda 's factory team since his MotoGP debut in 2013 . He is nicknamed the 'Ant of Cervera ' worldwide and 'el tro de Cervera ' in his hometown , meaning the 'Thunder of Cervera ' . He is one of four riders to have won world championship titles in three different categories , after Mike Hailwood , Phil Read and Valentino Rossi . Márquez is often considered one of the greatest innovators of modern MotoGP racing , due to his comparatively exaggerated cornering technique of leaning so far over the bike he seems to be in constant danger of sliding out . Born in Cervera , Catalonia , Spain , Márquez became the second Catalan rider after Àlex Crivillé and the third Spaniard after Crivillé and Jorge Lorenzo to win the premier class title , and is to date the most successful Catalan and Spanish rider in the top category . Márquez won the 2010 125cc World Championship , the 2012 Moto2 World Championship , and the 2013 , 2014 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 MotoGP World Championships . Márquez became the first rider since Kenny Roberts in 1978 to accomplish the premier class title in his first season , and the youngest to win the title overall . In 2014 he defended his title , winning the championship with three rounds to spare , during which he won ten races in a row . He is the older brother of 2014 Moto3 world champion and 2019 Moto2 world champion Álex Márquez . Márquez equalled the all-time Grand Prix record for pole positions at the age of 23 in 2016 . Márquez secured the 2016 title with three rounds to spare at Motegi and sealed the title at Valencia in the final round of 2017 .
Repsol Honda is the official factory team of Repsol S.A. and the Honda Racing Corporation in the MotoGP World Championship .
Thomas Lüthi ( born 6 September 1986 ) is a professional motorcycle road racer currently competing in the MotoGP Grand Prix World Championship . For 2019 , he will ride for Dynavolt Intact GP in the Moto2 category .
Paddock Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motorcycle racing team from Switzerland who competed in the F.I.M . Road Racing World Championship since 2002 until 2014 , before being acquired by team Technomag . In 2005 , Paddock 's rider Thomas Lüthi won the 125cc title .
Jack Peter Miller ( born 18 January 1995 ) is an Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer , best known for being the championship runner-up in the 2014 Moto3 World Championship . He was the Winner of German IDM 125cc Championship in 2011 .
Ajo Motorsport is a Finnish team competing in the Moto2 and Moto3 classes of Grand Prix motorcycle racing , in the road racing World Championship and in the Spanish and European championships . The team 's leader is former racer Aki Ajo . His son is racer Niki Ajo . The team debuted in 2001 and took its first win in 2003 . Ajo Motorsport has won six world championship titles ; the 125cc championship with Mike Di Meglio in 2008 and Marc Márquez in 2010 , the Moto3 championship in 2012 with Sandro Cortese and 2016 with Brad Binder , and the Moto2 championship in 2015 and 2016 , both with Johann Zarco .
Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent ( singles ) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles ) . Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent 's court . The object of the game is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return . The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point , while the opposite player will . Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages . The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket , including wheelchair users . The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham , England , in the late 19th century as lawn tennis . It had close connections both to various field ( lawn ) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis . During most of the 19th century , in fact , the term tennis referred to real tennis , not lawn tennis . The rules of modern tennis have changed little since the 1890s . Two exceptions are that from 1908 to 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times , and the adoption of the tiebreak in the 1970s . A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology coupled with a point-challenge system , which allows a player to contest the line call of a point , a system known as Hawk-Eye .
The 2014 ATP World Tour Finals ( also known as the 2014 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals for sponsorship reasons ) was a men 's tennis tournament played at the O2 Arena in London , United Kingdom , between 9 and 16 November 2014 . It was the season-ending event for the best singles players and doubles teams on the 2014 ATP World Tour . The Bryan Brothers won the title at the doubles tournament , while Novak Djokovic successfully defended his single title for the second time after Roger Federer withdrew from the final , the first walkover in a final in the tournaments 45-year history .
Novak Djokovic ( Serbian : Новак Ђоковић , romanized : Novak Đoković , pronounced [ nôʋaːk dʑôːkoʋitɕ ] ( listen ) ; born 22 May 1987 ) is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No . 1 in men 's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ) . Djokovic has won 17 Grand Slam singles titles , the third-most in history for a male player , five ATP Finals titles , 34 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles , 13 ATP Tour 500 titles , and has held the No . 1 spot in the ATP rankings for over 275 weeks . In majors , he has won a record eight Australian Open titles , five Wimbledon titles , three US Open titles , and one French Open title . By winning the 2016 French Open , he became the eighth player in history to achieve the Career Grand Slam and the third man to hold all four major titles at once , the first since Rod Laver in 1969 and the first ever to do so on three different surfaces . He is the only male player to have won all nine of the Masters 1000 tournaments . Djokovic was also a member of Serbia 's winning Davis Cup team in 2010 and in the 2020 ATP Cup . Djokovic is the first Serbian player to be ranked No . 1 by the ATP and the first male player representing Serbia to win a Grand Slam singles title . He is a six-time ITF World Champion and a five-time ATP year-end No . 1 ranked player .
Robert Charles Bryan ( born April 29 , 1978 ) is an American professional tennis player . He has won twenty-three Grand Slam titles : 16 in men 's doubles and 7 in mixed doubles . He turned professional in 1998 . With his twin brother Mike , he has been the world No . 1 doubles player for much of the last several years , first achieving the top ranking in September 2003 . The brothers were named ATP Team of the Decade for 2000-2009 . The brothers became the second men 's doubles team to complete the career Golden Slam at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . Bob Bryan ended his 2018 season early with subsequent hip surgery in August 2018 due to an injury he sustained during his Madrid final retirement earlier in May 2018 , which would have elevated the Bryan brothers as the oldest players back to the top of the men 's doubles ranking if they were victorious . His recovery from hip surgery took around 5 months , which led his brother Mike primarily first partnering with fellow compatriots Sam Querrey and then more successfully Jack Sock during Bob 's absence .
Michael Carl Bryan ( born April 29 , 1978 ) is an American professional tennis player . The right-hander turned pro in 1998 . With his twin brother Bob , he has been world No . 1 doubles player for more than nine years , first achieving the top ranking in September 2003 , and they became the second men 's doubles team to complete the career Golden Slam by winning the 2012 Summer Olympics . He holds the records for the most Grand Slam doubles titles at 18 , the most ATP men 's doubles titles ( 123 ) , and the most weeks ( 506 ) ranked number one . He won all but five of his doubles titles with his brother ; with Jack Sock , he won two majors and the year-end championship in 2018 , as well as the 2018 ATP World Tour Fans ' Favorite Doubles Team .
Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practised at the collegiate level , at the Olympic Games , Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games , as well as many associations .
The 2014 AIBA Women 's World Boxing Championships was initially scheduled to be held in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada . from September to October 2014 . However , after Boxing Canada could not find a venue that was available for the dates suitable for AIBA , Boxing Canada withdrew from hosting . Subsequently the competition was held at the Halla Gymnasium of Jeju City , South Korea and took place between 13 and 25 November 2014 .
Russia ( Russian : Росси́я , tr . Rossiya , IPA : [ rɐˈsʲijə ] ) , or the Russian Federation , [ e ] is a European country located in Eastern Europe with a vast expanse of territory that stretches across Northern Asia . At 17,125,200 square kilometres ( 6,612,100 sq mi ) , it is by far the largest country in the world by area , covering more than one-eighth of the Earth 's inhabited land area , spanning eleven time zones , and bordering 16 sovereign nations . The territory of Russia extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east , and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the south . With 146.7 million inhabitants living in the country 's 85 federal subjects as of 2020 , Russia is the most populous nation in Europe and the ninth-most populous nation in the world . Russia 's capital and largest city is Moscow ; other major urban areas include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod , Kazan and Chelyabinsk . The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD . Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants , the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century . In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire , beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium . Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states , until it was finally reunified by the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 15th century . By the 18th century , the nation had greatly expanded through conquest , annexation , and exploration to become the Russian Empire , which was the third largest empire in history , stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east . Following the Russian Revolution , the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR/Soviet Union ) , the world 's first constitutionally socialist state .
Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two ( singles ) or four players ( doubles squash ) in a four-walled court with a small , hollow rubber ball . The players alternate in striking the ball with their racquets onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court . The objective of the game is to hit the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return . About 20 million people play squash regularly world-wide in over 185 countries . The governing body of Squash , the World Squash Federation ( WSF ) , is recognized by the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) , but the sport is not part of the Olympic Games , despite a number of applications . Supporters continue to lobby for its incorporation in a future Olympic program .
The 2014 PSA Men 's World Squash Championship is the men 's edition of the 2014 World Championship , which serves as the individual world championship for squash players . The event took place in Doha in Qatar from 14 to 21 November 2014 . Ramy Ashour won his third World Championship title , defeating Mohamed El Shorbagy in the final .
Ramy Mohamed Ashour ( born September 30 , 1987 , in Cairo , Egypt ) , known as Ramy Ashour ( Arabic : رامي عاشور ) , is a retired professional squash player from Egypt , widely regarded as one of the best squash players in the history of the sport . Thanks to the constant training with his older brother , Hisham Ashour , also a professional squash player , Ramy became the youngest player to reach number one in the world since the 1980s , as well as being the first ever two time World Junior Squash Champion . On April 22 , 2019 , at the age of 31 , Ashour announced his retirement from professional Squash . Ramy is known for his unique playing style , often referred to as 'The Artist ' ; he is regarded by many squash pundits , former and current players , to be one of the most naturally gifted players to ever play the game . Mohamed El Shorbagy , the 2017 world champion , once commented after losing in two world finals to him , as Ashour being 'the best of the best ' ; Jonah Barrington , also one of the Squash greats , ranks him as equal to Pakistani legends Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan who dominated the game in the 1980s and 1990s . An unfortunate turn of events left Ashour plagued with a chronic hamstring problem in the twilight of his career . It almost certainly had an impact on his trophy cabinet , but Ashour himself took a characteristically philosophical approach to his injury , demonstrated in his various social media posts on the issue - citing his mental battle and desire for a full recovery . The injury itself came just after his 40+ match winning streak - where many players found it hard to play to his standard , which was defined by shorter rallies , reaction volleying and a unique insight into rally construction .
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event , often held over multiple days , featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from ( mostly ) nation-states . The first major , modern , multi-sport event of interna . Most have the same basic structure . Games are held over the course of several days in and around a host city , which changes for each competition . Countries send national teams to each competition , consisting of individual athletes and teams that compete in a wide variety of sports . Athletes or teams are awarded gold , silver or bronze medals for first , second and third place respectively . The games are generally held every four years , though some are annual competitions .
The Fourth Asian Beach Games were held in Phuket Island , Phuket Province , Thailand . The games were originally scheduled for Boracay Island , Aklan , Philippines , but was affected by the OCA 's hosting changes . The games were held on the same year of the 17th Asian Games . It was the seventh time for Thailand to host an Asia level multi-sports event , after Bangkok held four Asian Games ( 1966 , 1970 , 1978 and 1998 ) , one Asian Indoor Games ( 2005 ) and one Asian Martial Arts Games ( 2009 ) . However , it was the first time that the event would not be held in Bangkok .
Thailand will be the host nation for the 2014 Asian Beach Games held in Phuket from 14 to 23 November 2014 .
The 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games were held November 14-30 , 2014 in Veracruz , Mexico . The Games featured 36 sports , with most occurred in Veracruz , but some occurred in Boca del Río , Xalapa , Córdoba , Tuxpan , and Coatzacoalcos
Cuba ( /ˈkjuːbə/ ( listen ) ; Spanish pronunciation : [ ˈkuβa ] ) , officially the Republic of Cuba ( Spanish : República de Cuba ( help·info ) ) , is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos . Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea , Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean meet . It is east of the Yucatán Peninsula ( Mexico ) , south of both the U.S. state of Florida and the Bahamas , west of Haiti and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands . Havana is the largest city and capital ; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey . The area of the Republic of Cuba is 110,860 square kilometers ( 42,800 sq mi ) ( 109,884 square kilometers ( 42,426 sq mi ) without the territorial waters ) . The island of Cuba is the largest island in Cuba and in the Caribbean , with an area of 105,006 square kilometers ( 40,543 sq mi ) , and the second-most populous after Hispaniola , with over 11 million inhabitants . The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited by the Ciboney Taíno people from the 4th millennium BC until Spanish colonization in the 15th century . From the 15th century , it was a colony of Spain until the Spanish-American War of 1898 , when Cuba was occupied by the United States and gained nominal independence as a de facto United States protectorate in 1902 . As a fragile republic , in 1940 Cuba attempted to strengthen its democratic system , but mounting political radicalization and social strife culminated in a coup and subsequent dictatorship under Fulgencio Batista in 1952 . Open corruption and oppression under Batista 's rule led to his ousting in January 1959 by the 26th of July Movement , which afterwards established communist rule under the leadership of Fidel Castro . Since 1965 , the state has been governed by the Communist Party of Cuba . The country was a point of contention during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States , and a nuclear war nearly broke out during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 .
The FIA World Touring Car Championship was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile ( FIA ) . It has had several different incarnations , including a single season in 1987 as the World Touring Car Championship and most recently a world championship ( WTCC ) that has run between 2005 and 2017 . Following the 2017 season , an agreement was reached for the FIA WTCC to become FIA WTCR and use the TCR technical regulations .
The Guia Race of Macau is an international touring car race , and currently a round of the World Touring Car Cup . It is held on the temporary 6.2 km Guia Circuit on the streets of Macau , the Special Administrative Region of the People 's Republic of China as part of the Macau Grand Prix weekend . Before 2005 when the World Touring Car Championship began , the Guia race had been run annually as a one-off international touring car race .
José María Pechito López ( born 26 April 1983 ) is an Argentine race car driver and 2014-2016 World Touring Car Champion . He raced in the 2006 GP2 Series for the Super Nova team , and previously for the DAMS team , and the CMS team in Formula 3000 . He was also at Renault F1 as a test driver . He was supposed to make his Formula One debut in 2010 for US F1 Team but the team shut down before contesting a single race . On 16 December 2013 he joined the Citroën Total WTCC team for the 2014 World Touring Car Championship season . He won 10 races that year and clinched his first World Touring Car Championship . In 2015 he repeated the feat , again winning 10 races and the championship . In 2016 , he again retained the title with eight wins .
The Citroën World Touring Car Team is the Citroën factory touring car arm of Citroën Racing , competing in the World Touring Car Championship .
Robert Rob Peter Huff ( born 25 December 1979 ) is a British professional racing driver . He currently competes in the World Touring Car Cup driving for Sébastien Loeb Racing . He was the 2012 World Touring Car Championship champion .
Lada Sport is a Russian marketing , advertising , and engineering company based in Togliatti and it is a 100% subsidiary of AvtoVAZ . It is manufacturing the Lada Granta sport and Lada Kalina sport road models and also run the Lada works team in the World Touring Car Championship ( WTCC ) . Their first season was the 2009 season ( ran by Russian Bears Motorsport team ) .
Formula E , known as ABB FIA Formula E for sponsorship reasons , is a single seater motorsport championship that uses only electric cars . The series was conceived in 2011 , and the inaugural championship commenced in Beijing in September 2014 . It is sanctioned by the FIA . Alejandro Agag is the founder and current chairman of Formula E Holdings .
The 2014 Putrajaya ePrix , formally the 2014 FIA Formula E Ycapital Management Putrajaya ePrixis a Formula E motor race that was held on 22 November 2014 at the Putrajaya Street Circuit in Putrajaya , Malaysia . It was the second championship race of the single-seater , electrically powered racing car series ' inaugural season . Drivers Bruno Senna , Katherine Legge and Nick Heidfeld were awarded the FanBoost for the race . The race was won by British driver Sam Bird ( Virgin Racing )
Sam Jamie Bird ( born 9 January 1987 ) is a British professional racing driver who currently drives for Envision Virgin Racing in Formula E and for AF Corse in the FIA World Endurance Championship .
The Envision Virgin Racing Formula E Team is a British motor racing team based at Silverstone Park , UK and majority-owned by Envision Energy that competes in Formula E. Currently , the two drivers are Sam Bird and Robin Frijns
Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , [ a ] is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players . It is played by approximately 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies , making it the world 's most popular sport . The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end . The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal . Football is played in accordance with a set of rules known as the Laws of the Game . The ball is 68-70 cm ( 27-28 in ) in circumference and known as the football . The two teams each compete to get the ball into the other team 's goal ( between the posts and under the bar ) , thereby scoring a goal . The team that has scored more goals at the end of the game is the winner ; if both teams have scored an equal number of goals then the game is a draw . Each team is led by a captain who has only one official responsibility as mandated by the Laws of the Game : to represent their team in the coin toss prior to kick-off or penalty kicks . Players are not allowed to touch the ball with hands or arms while it is in play , except for the goalkeepers within the penalty area . Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball , but may also use any other part of their body except the hands and the arms . The team that scores most goals by the end of the match wins .
The 2014 AFF Championship , sponsored by Suzuki and officially known as the 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup , was the 10th edition of the AFF Championship , an international football competition consisting of national teams of member nations of the ASEAN Football Federation ( AFF ) . Co-hosting rights to the group stages were awarded to Singapore and Vietnam with matches held on 22 November to 20 December 2014 . Meanwhile , Malaysia , Philippines and Thailand also hosted knock-out stage matches , as their teams advanced to the semi-finals . Singapore were the defending champion , but failed to qualify from the group stage . Thailand won the tournament 4-3 in a two-legged final against Malaysia , with manager Kiatisuk Senamuang being the first man to win the competition as a player then manager .
The Thailand national football team ( Thai : ฟุตบอลทีมชาติไทย , RTGS : futbon thim chat thai , pronounced [ fút.bɔ̄n tʰīːm t͡ɕʰâːt tʰāj ] ) represents Thailand in senior international football and is controlled by the Football Association of Thailand . Five AFF Championship and nine senior-level Southeast Asian Games titles all but reinforced Thailand 's foothold as the dominator of regional competitions . Apart from earning third place in the 1972 AFC Asian Cup , fourth place finishes in the 1990 and 1998 Asian Games and competing twice in the Summer Olympics , the team has failed to deliver new achievements in the continental and global records . Thailand obtained first win in the AFC Asian Cup in 2007 and had to wait 47 years to finally sneak out of the group stage in 2019 . Thailand has never qualified for FIFA World Cup but is the only AFF member that has participated in the final round of qualification since 1945 .
The 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ( formally known as the 2014 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ) is a Formula One motor race that was held at the Yas Marina Circuit on 23 November 2014 . The race was the nineteenth and final round of the 2014 season , the 916th World Championship race , and marked the sixth running of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix . Double points were awarded for the first time at this race . This change to the points system was not well received in the months leading up to the race , and the implementation of this system turned out to be a one-off . The series would revert to the 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 system in use since 2010 for all races , beginning with the 2015 Australian Grand Prix . The race determined the World Drivers ' Championship between Mercedes drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton , with the latter winning both the race and the title . This would prove to be the final Grand Prix for Jean-Éric Vergne , Adrian Sutil and Kamui Kobayashi as well as the last grand prix for the Caterham team , it collapsed before the start of the 2015 season .
Snooker ( pronounced UK : /ˈsnuːkə/ , US : /ˈsnʊkər/ ) is a cue sport that originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century . It is played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth ( or baize ) , with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side . Using a cue stick and 21 coloured balls , players must strike the white ball ( or cue ball ) to pot or pocket the remaining balls in the correct sequence , accumulating points for each pot . An individual game ( or frame ) , is won by the player scoring the most points . A match is won when a player wins a predetermined number of frames . Snooker gained its identity in 1875 when army officer Sir Neville Chamberlain ( 1856-1944 ) , stationed in Ooty , Tamil Nadu , devised a set of rules that combined pyramid and black pool . The word snooker was a long-used military term for inexperienced or first-year personnel . The game grew in popularity in the United Kingdom , and the Billiards Association and Control Club was formed in 1919 . It is now governed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association ( WPBSA ) . The World Snooker Championship has taken place since 1927 . Joe Davis , a key figure in the early growth of the sport , won the championship 15 straight times between 1927 and 1946 . The modern era began in 1969 after the broadcaster BBC commissioned the snooker television show Pot Black and later began to air the World Championship in 1978 .
The 2014 Coral UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 25 November and 7 December 2014 at the Barbican Centre in York , England . It was the fifth ranking event of the 2014/2015 season . Ronnie O'Sullivan made the 109th official maximum break during his last 16 match against Matthew Selt . This was O'Sullivan 's 13th official 147 break and also the fourth maximum break in the 2014/2015 season and the third time in a row that a maximum was made in a UK Championship . Neil Robertson was the defending champion , but he lost 5-6 against Graeme Dott in the last 16 . This result led to Ding Junhui becoming the first Asian player to reach the world number one ranking . Ronnie O'Sullivan won his fifth UK Championship and his 27th ranking title by defeating Judd Trump 10-9 in the final . Trump had trailed 4-9 at one point during the evening session but fought back with 5 consecutive frames to level at 9-9 before OSullivan won the deciding frame .
Ronald Antonio O'Sullivan OBE ( born 5 December 1975 ) is an English professional snooker player who is one of the most successful players in the history of the sport . Since turning professional in 1992 , he has won five World Championships , a record seven Masters titles , and a record seven UK Championships , setting a record total of 19 titles in Triple Crown tournaments . He shares the record for the most ranking titles ( 36 ) with Stephen Hendry and also holds the record as the youngest winner of a ranking title ( 1993 UK Championship , aged 17 years and 358 days ) as well as the youngest winner of the Masters ( in 1995 , aged 19 years and 69 days ) . In the 2017/2018 season , O'Sullivan won five ranking events in a single season , a record that he shares with Hendry , Ding Junhui and Mark Selby . His career prize money of over £11 million is the highest amount earned by any player in snooker history . A prolific break-builder , O'Sullivan is the only player to have reached 1,000 career century breaks . He has also achieved the highest number of officially recognized maximum breaks in professional competition ( 15 ) , and the fastest competitive maximum break , compiled in a time of 5 minutes and 8 seconds at the 1997 World Championship . He first became world number one in the 2002/2003 season and held the position for five out of eight seasons , ending in May 2010 . He regained the top ranking in March 2019 after a nine-year absence , the longest time any player has spent between spells as world number one , and held it until August 2019 . O'Sullivan has often been a controversial figure in the sport . Noted for his unpredictable temperament and his struggles with alcohol , drugs , and depression , he has received many warnings and sanctions from the sport 's governing body over his conduct and comments . He took a prolonged break from the sport during the 2012/2013 season and is known for repeatedly declaring his intention to retire .
The 2014 International Premier Tennis League season ( 2014 IPTL season , officially the 2014 Coca-Cola International Premier Tennis League Presented by Qatar Airways season pursuant to sponsorship agreements with The Coca-Cola Company and Qatar Airways ) is the inaugural season of the professional team tennis league contested by four teams in Asia .
The 2014 Indian Aces season ( officially the 2014 Micromax Indian Aces season pursuant to a sponsorship agreement with Micromax Informatics Ltd. , the team 's current owner ) is the inaugural season of the franchise playing in the International Premier Tennis League ( IPTL ) .
Field hockey is a widely played team sport of the hockey family . The game can be played on grass , watered turf , artificial turf or synthetic field , as well as an indoor boarded surface . Each team plays with ten field players and a goalkeeper . Players commonly use sticks made out of wood , carbon fibre , fibre glass or a combination of carbon fibre and fibre glass in different quantities ( with the higher carbon fibre stick being more expensive and less likely to break ) to hit a round , hard , plastic hockey ball . The length of the hockey stick is based on the player 's individual height , the top of the stick usually comes to the players hip , taller players typically have taller sticks . The sticks have a round side and a flat side only the flat face of the stick is allowed to be used , if the other side is used it results in a foul . Goalies often have a different kind of stick , however they can also use an ordinary field hockey stick . The specific goal-keeping sticks have another curve at the end of the stick , this is to give them more surface area to save the ball . The uniform consists of shin guards , shoes , shorts or a skirt , a mouthguard and a jersey . Today , the game is played globally , mainly in parts of Western Europe , South Asia , Southern Africa , Australia , New Zealand , Argentina , and parts of the United States ( primarily New England and the Mid-Atlantic states ) . Known simply as hockey in many territories , the term field hockey is used primarily in Canada and the United States where ice hockey is more popular . In Sweden , the term landhockey is used and to some degree also in Norway where it is governed by Norway 's Bandy Association .
The 2014 Women 's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 21st edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for women . It was held from 29 November to 7 December 2014 in Mendoza , Argentina . From this year on the tournament began to be held biennially due to the introduction of the Hockey World League , returning to its original format changed in 1999 . Argentina won the tournament for the sixth time after defeating Australia 3-1 in the final on a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw , tying the record of six titles previously set by Australia and the Netherlands in 2003 and 2011 respectively . The Netherlands won the third place match by defeating New Zealand 2-1 .
The Argentina women 's national field hockey team ( Spanish : Selección femenina de hockey sobre césped de Argentina ) is governed by the Argentine Hockey Confederation ( CAH ) . The current coach is Carlos Retegui , who was appointed after Agustín Corradini . The team is currently third in the FIH World Rankings since july 2019 after their 4th place at the 2019 FIH Pro League . Las Leonas ( The Lionesses ) have appeared in five Hockey World Cup finals , including the first final in 1974 , which they lost 1-0 to the Netherlands . Argentina had to settle with second place in two more finals before winning the tournament for the first time in 2002 , beating the Netherlands 4-3 in the final on penalty strokes after a 1-1 draw . Argentina , led by eight-time FIH Player of the Year Luciana Aymar won again in 2010 , a 3-1 victory over the Netherlands . Argentina 's World Cup-winning coaches are Sergio Vigil in 2002 , and Carlos Retegui in 2010 . Argentina has been very successful at the Summer Olympics , winning four consecutive medals ( two silver , two bronze ) since the 2000 edition , when they became the first women 's team in any sport to win an Olympic medal for their country . Luciana Aymar is the only player that has participated and won those four medals . Also , after their first title in 2001 at a Champions Trophy , they have won the tournament six more times . In front of a home crowd , they won the 2014-15 World League as the first international title after Aymar 's retirement from the national team the previous year . At a continental level , Argentina has dominated and won every tournament they played , including the Women 's Pan American Cup and the Pan American Games leaving the United States with second place on most events until they lost the 2011 Pan American Games final for the first time .
Canadian football ( French : football canadien ) is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play 110 yards ( 101 m ) long and 65 yards ( 59 m ) wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team 's scoring area ( end zone ) . In Canada , the term football may refer to Canadian football and American football collectively , or to either sport specifically , depending on context ; outside of Canada , the term Canadian football is used exclusively to describe this sport , even in the United States ( the term gridiron football [ or , more rarely , North American football ] is also used worldwide as well to refer to both sports collectively ) . The two sports have shared origins and are closely related but have some key differences , and both sports had their modern rules developed independently from each other . Rugby football in Canada originated in the early 1860s , and over time , the game known as Canadian football developed . Both the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) , the sport 's top professional league , and Football Canada , the governing body for amateur play , trace their roots to 1880 and the founding of the Canadian Rugby Football Union . The CFL is the most popular and only major professional Canadian football league . Its championship game , the Grey Cup , is one of Canada 's largest sporting events , attracting a broad television audience . In 2009 , about 40% of Canada 's population watched part of the game ; in 2014 , it was closer to 33% , peaking at 5.1 million viewers in the fourth quarter . Canadian football is also played at the bantam , high school , junior , collegiate , and semi-professional levels : the Canadian Junior Football League , formed May 8 , 1974 , and Quebec Junior Football League are leagues for players aged 18-22 , many post-secondary institutions compete in U Sports football for the Vanier Cup , and senior leagues such as the Alberta Football League have grown in popularity in recent years . Great achievements in Canadian football are enshrined in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame located in Hamilton , Ontario . Other organizations across Canada perform senior league Canadian football during the summer .
The 102nd Grey Cup was a Canadian football game played November 30 , 2014 , between the West Division champion Calgary Stampeders and East Division champion Hamilton Tiger-Cats , to determine the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) championship for the 2014 season . The contest was held at BC Place stadium in Vancouver , British Columbia . The Stampeders won the contest 20-16 to claim their seventh Grey Cup championship in franchise history and first since 2008 . Calgary quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell was named the Grey Cup Most Valuable Player , while Hamilton 's Andy Fantuz received the Dick Suderman Trophy as most outstanding Canadian .
The Calgary Stampeders are a professional Canadian football team based in Calgary , Alberta , competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) . The Stampeders play their home games at McMahon Stadium and are the third-oldest active franchise in the CFL . The Stampeders were officially founded in 1945 , although there were clubs operating in Calgary as early as 1909 . The Calgary Stampeders have won eight Grey Cups , most recently in 2018 , from their appearances in 17 Grey Cup Championship games . They have won 20 Western Division Championships and one Northern Division Championship in the franchise 's history . The team has a provincial rivalry with the Edmonton Eskimos , as well as fierce divisional rivalries with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the BC Lions .
The Grey Cup 's Most Valuable Player award is awarded annually since 1959 to the player of the winning team who deemed to have had the best performance in the Grey Cup Game , the Canadian Football League 's championship game . Canadians are eligible for the award but have seldom hoisted it due to American players ' dominance in the league . Andrew Harris , after winning the Grey Cup with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2019 , became the first and up-to-date only player to win both the Grey Cup Most Valuable Player and the Dick Suderman Trophy in the same edition of the championship .
Bo Levi Mitchell ( born March 3 , 1990 ) is a professional Canadian football quarterback for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) . He signed with the Stampeders in 2012 and became the team 's starting quarterback for the 2014 season , setting a number of club and league records including best record for a first time starting quarterback in league history ( 12 wins , 1 loss ) . He won the 102nd Grey Cup in 2014 , the CFL 's Most Outstanding Player Award in 2016 and 2018 , and the 106th Grey Cup in 2018 . With his second Grey Cup win as starter , he became the first QB to start and win multiple Grey Cup games with the Stampeders organization .
The 2014 International Women 's Club Championship , known for sponsorship reasons as the Nestlé Cup , was the third worldwide international women 's football club tournament , held in Japan from 30 November to 6 December 2014 . São José won the final 2-0 against Arsenal .
São José Esporte Clube , commonly known as just São José , is a Brazilian women 's football club , based in the city of São José dos Campos , São Paulo state , Brazil . The club play in the Copa do Brasil , which is the most important competition of Brazilian women 's football . They won the Copa Libertadores Femenina three times and the Copa do Brasil twice .