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England at the FIFA World Cup
England did not enter the competition until 1950 , but have entered all eighteen subsequent tournaments . They have failed to qualify for the finals on three occasions , 1974 ( West Germany ) , 1978 ( Argentina ) and 1994 ( United States ) , and have failed to advance from the group stages on three occasions ; at the 1950 FIFA World Cup , the 1958 FIFA World Cup and the 2014 FIFA World Cup . Their best ever performance is winning the Cup in the 1966 tournament held in England , whilst they also finished in fourth place in 1990 , in Italy , and in 2018 in Russia . Other than that , the team have reached the quarter - finals on nine occasions , the latest of which were at the 2002 ( South Korea / Japan ) and the 2006 ( Germany ) .
United Kingdom
In 2003 , rugby union was ranked the second most popular sport in the UK . The sport was created in Rugby School , Warwickshire , and the first rugby international took place on 27 March 1871 between England and Scotland . England , Scotland , Wales , Ireland , France and Italy compete in the Six Nations Championship ; the premier international tournament in the northern hemisphere . Sport governing bodies in England , Scotland , Wales and Ireland organise and regulate the game separately . If any of the British teams or the Irish team beat the other three in a tournament , then it is awarded the Triple Crown .
Afghanistan
Afghanistan 's sports teams are increasingly celebrating titles at international events . Its basketball team won the first team sports title at the 2010 South Asian Games . Later that year , the country 's cricket team followed as it won the 2009 -- 10 ICC Intercontinental Cup . In 2012 , the country 's 3x3 basketball team won the gold medal at the 2012 Asian Beach Games . In 2013 , Afghanistan 's football team followed as it won the SAFF Championship .
Football (ball)
The oldest football still in existence , which is thought to have been made circa 1550 , was discovered in the roof of Stirling Castle , Scotland , in 1981 . The ball is made of leather ( possibly from a deer ) and a pig 's bladder . It has a diameter of between 14 -- 16 cm ( 5.5 -- 6.3 in ) , weighs 125 g ( 4.4 oz ) and is currently on display at the Smith Art Gallery and Museum in Stirling .
Long jump
Championships Gold Silver Bronze 1983 Helsinki details Carl Lewis ( USA ) Jason Grimes ( USA ) Mike Conley ( USA ) 1987 Rome details Carl Lewis ( USA ) Robert Emmiyan ( URS ) Larry Myricks ( USA ) 1991 Tokyo details Mike Powell ( USA ) Carl Lewis ( USA ) Larry Myricks ( USA ) 1993 Stuttgart details Mike Powell ( USA ) Stanislav Tarasenko ( RUS ) Vitaliy Kyrylenko ( UKR ) 1995 Gothenburg details Iván Pedroso ( CUB ) James Beckford ( JAM ) Mike Powell ( USA ) 1997 Athens details Iván Pedroso ( CUB ) Erick Walder ( USA ) Kirill Sosunov ( RUS ) 1999 Seville details Iván Pedroso ( CUB ) Yago Lamela ( ESP ) Gregor Cankar ( SLO ) 2001 Edmonton details Iván Pedroso ( CUB ) Savanté Stringfellow ( USA ) Carlos Calado ( POR ) 2003 Saint - Denis details Dwight Phillips ( USA ) James Beckford ( JAM ) Yago Lamela ( ESP ) 2005 Helsinki details Dwight Phillips ( USA ) Ignisious Gaisah ( GHA ) Tommi Evilä ( FIN ) 2007 Osaka details Irving Saladino ( PAN ) Andrew Howe ( ITA ) Dwight Phillips ( USA ) 2009 Berlin details Dwight Phillips ( USA ) Godfrey Khotso Mokoena ( RSA ) Mitchell Watt ( AUS ) 2011 Daegu details Dwight Phillips ( USA ) Mitchell Watt ( AUS ) Ngonidzashe Makusha ( ZIM ) 2013 Moscow details Aleksandr Menkov ( RUS ) Ignisious Gaisah ( NED ) Luis Rivera ( MEX ) 2015 Beijing details Greg Rutherford ( GBR ) Fabrice Lapierre ( AUS ) Wang Jianan ( CHN ) 2017 London details Luvo Manyonga ( RSA ) Jarrion Lawson ( USA ) Ruswahl Samaai ( RSA )
The Bahamas
Sport is a significant part of Bahamian culture . The national sport is cricket . Cricket has been played in the Bahamas from 1846 . It is the oldest sport being played in the country today . The Bahamas Cricket Association was formed in 1936 as an organised body . From the 1940s to the 1970s , cricket was played amongst many Bahamians . Bahamas is not a part of the West Indies Cricket Board , so players are not eligible to play for the West Indies cricket team . The late 1970s saw the game begin to decline in the country as teachers , who had previously come from the United Kingdom with a passion for cricket were replaced by teachers who had been trained in the United States . The Bahamian Physical education teachers had no knowledge of the game and instead taught track & field , basketball , baseball , softball , volleyball and football where primary and high schools compete against each other . Today cricket is still enjoyed by a few locals and immigrants in the country usually from Jamaica , Guyana , Haiti and Barbados . Cricket is played on Saturdays and Sundays at Windsor Park and Haynes Oval .
FIFA World Cup
After 1970 , a new trophy , known as the FIFA World Cup Trophy , was designed . The experts of FIFA , coming from seven countries , evaluated the 53 presented models , finally opting for the work of the Italian designer Silvio Gazzaniga . The new trophy is 36 cm ( 14.2 in ) high , made of solid 18 carat ( 75 % ) gold and weighs 6.175 kg ( 13.6 lb ) . The base contains two layers of semi-precious malachite while the bottom side of the trophy bears the engraved year and name of each FIFA World Cup winner since 1974 . The description of the trophy by Gazzaniga was : `` The lines spring out from the base , rising in spirals , stretching out to receive the world . From the remarkable dynamic tensions of the compact body of the sculpture rise the figures of two athletes at the stirring moment of victory . ''
England at the FIFA World Cup
World Champions 1966 FIFA Fair Play Trophy 1990 FIFA Fair Play Trophy 1998 ( shared )
England at the FIFA World Cup
England national football team General The Football Association History Managers Captains Kits Venues Wembley Stadium 1923 stadium 2007 stadium Home venues St George 's Park ( Burton ) Statistics All - time record Records World Cup record European Championship record Hat - tricks Awards The FA England Awards The FA Women 's Football Awards Results Men 's 1872 -- 99 1900 -- 29 1930 -- 59 1960 -- 79 1980 -- 99 2000 -- 19 Unofficial matches Women 's 2010s Players World Cup & Euro Championship squads 10 + caps 4 -- 9 caps 2 -- 3 caps 1 cap Born outside England Other categories World Cups 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1982 1986 1990 1998 2002 2006 2014 2018 European Championships 1968 1980 2000 2012 2016 Other tournaments British Home Championship ( 1884 -- 1984 ) Minor tournaments Noted rivalries Argentina Austria Belgium Brazil Denmark France Germany Hungary Italy Ireland Netherlands Poland Portugal Scotland Spain Sweden Switzerland Wales Culture Noted matches Band Songs Discography WAGs `` They think it 's all over '' Other FA teams Men 's England B England C Amateur ( defunct ) U-21 U-20 U-19 U-18 U-17 U-16 Futsal Learning Disabilities Beach ( not FA affiliated ) Women 's Senior U-23 U-20 U-19 U-17 U-15 Beach ( not FA affiliated )
List of Olympic Games scandals and controversies
Players for the men 's basketball teams posed for a pre-Olympic newspaper advertisement in popular Spanish daily Marca , in which they were pictured pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes , narrowing them in order to mimic the stereotypes of thin Asian eyes . Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian placed his bronze medal onto the floor immediately after it was placed around his neck in protest at his loss to Italian Andrea Minguzzi in the semifinals of the men 's 84kg Greco - Roman wrestling event . He was subsequently disqualified by the IOC . His bronze medal was stripped , but it was not handed out to Chinese wrestler Ma Sanyi , who finished fifth . Questions have been raised about the ages of two Chinese female gymnasts , He Kexin and Jiang Yuyuan . This is due partly to their overly - youthful appearance , as well as a speech in 2007 by Chinese director of general administration for sport Liu Peng . Norway 's last - second goal against South Korea in the semifinals of handball put it through to the Gold Medal game . According to a photograph that has surfaced on the Internet , however , the ball had failed to fully cross the goal line prior to time expiring . The South Koreans protested and requested that the game continue at the overtime point . The IHF has confirmed the results of the match . Team handball rules suggest , but do not clearly state , that a goal in flight after the buzzer is not valid , but in any case the decision is not reviewable . Other sports , such as basketball and water polo , allow a goal that has left the thrower 's hand prior to time ; netball , on the other hand , explicitly disallows a goal unless the ball has gone through the ring at the buzzer . Cuban taekwondoist Ángel Matos was banned for life from any international taekwondo events after kicking a referee in the face . Matos attacked the referee after he disqualified Matos for violating the time limit on an injury timeout . He then punched another official . China was criticized for their state run athlete training program that often forces young children to leave their families to endure long and tough training regimens in the state academies , where 250,000 children are enrolled . The sports schools focus on training at the expense of general education , leaving athletes unprepared to live regular lives after sports .
United Kingdom
Cricket was invented in England , and its laws were established by Marylebone Cricket Club in 1788 . The England cricket team , controlled by the England and Wales Cricket Board , is the only national team in the UK with Test status . Team members are drawn from the main county sides , and include both English and Welsh players . Cricket is distinct from football and rugby where Wales and England field separate national teams , although Wales had fielded its own team in the past . Irish and Scottish players have played for England because neither Scotland nor Ireland have Test status and have only recently started to play in One Day Internationals . Scotland , England ( and Wales ) , and Ireland ( including Northern Ireland ) have competed at the Cricket World Cup , with England reaching the finals on three occasions . There is a professional league championship in which clubs representing 17 English counties and 1 Welsh county compete . Wimbledon
Egg Bowl
To prevent such events in the future , students of the two schools created the `` Golden Egg '' , a large trophy which has been awarded to the winning team each year since 1927 . The trophy is a large football - shaped brass piece mounted to a wooden base and traditionally symbolizes supremacy in college football in the state of Mississippi for the year . The footballs used in American football in the 1920s were considerably more ovoid and blunter than those in use today and similar to the balls still used in rugby ; the trophy thus , to modern eyes , more resembles an egg than a football . The awarding of the `` Golden Egg '' was instituted in 1927 by joint agreement between the two schools ' student bodies . In the event of a tie ( before overtime was instituted in Division - I college football in 1996 ) the school that won the game the previous year kept the trophy for the first half of the new year and then the trophy was sent to the other school for the second half of the new year . The game was given the nickname `` Egg Bowl '' by Clarion - Ledger sportswriter Tom Patterson in 1979 .
America's Cup
The trophy was held by the NYYC from 1857 ( when the syndicate that won the cup donated the trophy to the club ) until 1983 . The NYYC successfully defended the trophy twenty - four times in a row before being defeated by the Royal Perth Yacht Club , represented by the yacht Australia II . The NYYC 's reign was the longest winning streak ( in terms of date ) in the history of all sports .
2018 FIFA World Cup
Notable countries that failed to qualify include four - time champions Italy ( for the first time since 1958 ) , three - time runners - up and third placed in 2014 the Netherlands ( for the first time since 2002 ) , and four reigning continental champions : 2017 Africa Cup of Nations winners Cameroon , two - time Copa América champions and 2017 Confederations Cup runners - up Chile , 2016 OFC Nations Cup winners New Zealand , and 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup champions United States ( for the first time since 1986 ) . The other notable qualifying streaks broken were for Ghana and Ivory Coast , who had both made the previous three tournaments .
List of Olympic Games scandals and controversies
This time , the Soviets ' Alexander Belov and the USA 's Kevin Joyce and Jim Forbes went up for the pass , and Belov caught the long pass from Ivan Edeshko near the American basket . Belov then laid the ball in for the winning points as the buzzer sounded . The U.S. players voted unanimously to refuse their silver medals , and at least one team member , Kenny Davis , has directed in his will that his heirs are never to accept the medals , even posthumously . At the end of the Marathon , a German impostor entered the stadium to the cheers of the stadium ahead of the actual winner , Frank Shorter of the United States . During the American Broadcasting Company coverage of the event , the guest commentator , writer Erich Segal famously called to Shorter `` It 's a fraud , Frank . '' In the men 's field hockey final Michael Krause 's goal in the 60th minute gave the host West Germans a 1 -- 0 victory in the final over the defending champion Pakistan . Pakistan 's players complained about some of the umpiring and disagreed that Krause 's goal was good . After the game , Pakistani fans ran onto the field in rage ; some players and fans dumped water on Belgium 's Rene Frank , then the head of the sport 's international governing body . During the medals ceremony , the players staged their protest , some of them turning their backs to the West German flag . Reports also mention that the Pakistani players handled their silver medals disrespectfully . According to the story in The Washington Post , the team 's manager , G.R. Chaudhry , said that his team thought the outcome had been `` pre-planned '' by the officials , Horacio Servetto of Argentina and Richard Jewell of Australia .
Football
By the late 1850s , many football clubs had been formed throughout the English - speaking world , to play various codes of football . Sheffield Football Club , founded in 1857 in the English city of Sheffield by Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest , was later recognised as the world 's oldest club playing association football . However , the club initially played its own code of football : the Sheffield rules . The code was largely independent of the public school rules , the most significant difference being the lack of an offside rule .
Rory McIlroy
Junior Ryder Cup ( representing Europe ) : 2004 ( winners ) Eisenhower Trophy ( representing Ireland ) : 2006 St Andrews Trophy ( representing Great Britain & Ireland ) : 2006 ( winners ) European Amateur Team Championship ( representing Ireland ) : 2007 ( winners ) Walker Cup ( representing Great Britain & Ireland ) : 2007 Bonallack Trophy ( representing Europe ) : 2006 ( winners )
Stanley Cup
Since the 1914 -- 15 season , the Cup has been won a combined 101 times by 18 active NHL teams and five defunct teams . It was not awarded in 1919 because of a Spanish flu epidemic , and in 2005 , as a consequence of the 2004 -- 05 NHL lockout . During the challenge cup era from 1893 to 1914 , the Cup was held by nine different teams . The Montreal Canadiens have won the Cup a record 24 times and are the most recent Canadian - based team to win the cup , having won it in 1993 , while the Detroit Red Wings have won the Cup 11 times , the most of any United States based NHL team , most recently in 2008 .
Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)
In the United States , the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing , commonly known as the Triple Crown , is a title awarded to a three - year - old Thoroughbred horse who wins the Kentucky Derby , Preakness Stakes , and Belmont Stakes . The three races were inaugurated in different years , the last being the Kentucky Derby in 1875 . These races are now run annually in May and early June of each year . The Triple Crown Trophy , commissioned in 1950 but awarded to all previous winners as well as those after 1950 , is awarded to a Triple Crown winner .
Melbourne Cup
In 1876 Edward Fischer , an immigrant from Austria , produced the first Australian - made trophy . It was an Etruscan shape with two handles . One side depicted a horse race with the grandstand and hill of Flemington in the background . The opposite side had the words `` Melbourne Cup , 1876 '' and the name of the winning horse . A silver - plated base sporting three silver horses was added in 1888 , but in 1891 the prize changed to being a 15 - inch - high ( 380 mm ) , 24 - inch - long ( 610 mm ) trophy showing a Victory figure offering an olive wreath to a jockey . From 1899 the trophy was in the form of silver galloping horse embossed on a 3 - foot - long ( 0.91 m ) plaque , although it was said to look like a greyhound by some people .
History of tennis
In addition to head - to - head events several annual professional tournaments were called championship tournaments . The most prestigious was usually the Wembley Championship , held at the Wembley Arena in England , played between 1934 and 1990 . The oldest was the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships , played between 1927 and 1999 . Between 1954 and 1962 , it was played indoors in Cleveland and was called the World Professional Championships . The third major tournament was the French Pro Championship , played between 1930 and 1968 . The British and American championships continued into the Open era but devolved to the status of minor tournaments after the late 1960s .
Chennai
Cricket is the most popular sport in Chennai . It was introduced in 1864 with the foundation of the Madras Cricket Club . The M.A. Chidambaram Stadium established in 1916 is among the oldest cricket stadium in India . The stadium was also one of the venues of the 1987 , 1996 and 2011 ICC Cricket World Cups . Chemplast Cricket Ground located at the IIT Madras campus is another important venue for cricket matches . Prominent cricketers from the city include former cricket captains S. Venkataraghavan and Kris Srikkanth . A cricket fast bowling academy called the MRF Pace Foundation , whose coaches include T.A. Sekhar and Glenn Mcgrath , is based in Chennai . Being home to the Indian Premier League ( IPL ) cricket team Chennai Super Kings , the city hosted the finals of the IPL 's 2011 and 2012 series .
Women's association football
After the lifting of the F.A. ban , the now defunct Women 's Football Association held its first national knockout cup in 1970 -- 71 . It was called the Mitre Trophy which became the FA Women 's Cup in 1993 . Southampton WFC was the inaugural winner . From 1983 to 1994 Doncaster Belles reached ten out of 11 finals , winning six of them . Chelsea are the current holders and Arsenal are the most successful club with a record 14 wins . Despite tournament sponsorship by major companies , entering the cup actually costs clubs more than they get in prize money . In 2015 it was reported that even if Notts County had won the tournament outright the paltry £ 8,600 winnings would leave them out of pocket . The winners of the men 's FA Cup in the same year received £ 1.8 million , with teams not even reaching the first round proper getting more than the women 's winners .
Chronology of Stanley Cup engravings
The band listing the 1953 -- 54 to 1964 -- 65 Cup winners is scheduled to be retired following the crowning of the 2017 -- 18 champions , the Washington Capitals .
Curling
Last - rock or last - stone advantage in an end is called the hammer . Before the game , teams typically decide who gets the hammer in the first end either by chance ( such as a coin toss ) , by a `` draw - to - the - button '' contest , where a representative of each team shoots to see who gets closer to the centre of the rings , or , particularly in tournament settings like the Winter Olympics , by a comparison of each team 's win - loss record . In all subsequent ends , the hammer belongs to the team that did not score in the preceding end . In the event that neither team scores , the hammer remains with the same team . Naturally , it is easier to score points with the hammer than without ; in tournament play , the team with the hammer generally tries to score two or more points . If only one point is possible , the skip will often try to avoid scoring at all in order to retain the hammer until the next end , when two or more points may lie . This is called a blank end . Scoring without the hammer is commonly referred to as stealing , or a steal , and is much more difficult .
2018 Commonwealth Games
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France–United Kingdom relations
In the sport of rugby union there is a rivalry between England and France . Both countries compete in the Six Nations Championship and the Rugby World Cup . England have the edge in both tournaments having the most outright wins in the Six Nations ( and its previous version the Five Nations ) , and most recently knocking the French sides out of the 2003 and 2007 World Cups at the semifinal stage and France knocked England out of the 2011 Rugby World Cup with a convincing score in their quarter final match . Though rugby is originally a British sport , French rugby has developed to such an extent that the English and French teams are now stiff competitors , with neither side greatly superior to the other .
List of Arsenal F.C. records and statistics
Arsenal 's first ever silverware was won as the Royal Arsenal in 1890 . The Kent Junior Cup , won by Royal Arsenal 's reserves , was the club 's first trophy , while the first team 's first trophy came three weeks later when they won the Kent Senior Cup . Their first national senior honour came in 1930 , when they won the FA Cup . The club enjoyed further success in the 1930s , winning another FA Cup and five Football League First Division titles . Arsenal won their first league and cup double in the 1970 -- 71 season and twice repeated the feat , in 1997 -- 98 and 2001 -- 02 , as well as winning a cup double of the FA Cup and League Cup in 1992 -- 93 . In 2003 -- 04 , Arsenal recorded an unbeaten top - flight league season , something achieved only once before by Preston North End in 1888 -- 89 , who only had to play 22 games . To mark the achievement , a special gold version of the Premier League trophy was commissioned and presented to the club the following season . Their most recent success came in 2017 , when they became the most successful club in FA Cup history with 13 titles . English
Stanley Cup
The replica trophy , called the `` Replica Cup '' , was created in 1993 by Montreal silversmith Louise St. Jacques to be used as a stand - in at the Hockey Hall of Fame whenever the Presentation Cup is not available for display . There are very few differences between the authenticated version and the replica version . The surest way to identify one version from the other is to check the engraving for the 1984 Stanley Cup winning Edmonton Oilers . The authenticated version has x 's engraved over Basil Pocklington 's name whereas his name is completely missing from the replica version .