Sports Flashcards

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Richard Petty sport

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24 hour endurance race | 3 relaying drivers in 1 car

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Motor racing, famous for Le Mans

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Each rally 3 days, 14-35 stages

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Originally Paris to Senegal, has been moved some years | Cars, motorbikes, quad bikes and trucks all race

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Motor racing, Dakar rally

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Grand Prix 2 (GP2)

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Monaco Grand Prix, Indianapolis 500, Le Mans 24 hours

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Graham Hill, British, 1960s-1970s

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F1, 7 drivers championships

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Motorcross

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White line in front of wicket that batsman runs between

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Period where on team bats and other fields. 1-2 innings per team in match Finishes when 10 players are out, o4 number of overs allowed are bowled

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A group of six deliveries (balls)

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England Australia in 1877

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1 day matches. Played every 4 years

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County Championship

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Sheffield Shield

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Cork and string layers, covered jn keather

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3 stumps, 2 bails resting on top

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Ball crosses boundary of field (4) or crosses boundary before bouncing (6)

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Ball pitched at batsmans feet in cricket

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Cricket, Australia, 1930s-40s

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Cricket, India, 90s-00s

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Cricket, West Indies, 50s-70s

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Cricket, Pakistan 1970s-90s, now PM of Pakistan

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Cricket, England, 1970s-90s, rivalry and court case with Imran Khan

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Cricket, Australia, 1990s-00s

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Cricket, Australia, aka 'Binga'

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Cricket, Sri Lanka

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Cricket, Sri Lanka

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Cricket, West Indies

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Cricket, West Indies. Aka the Prince of port of Spain

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Cricket, Pakistan

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Cricket, India

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Cricket, Pakistan. Record for fastest ball ever

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Cricket, Pakistan

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Tennis, USA, 14 grand slams 90s

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Cricket, England, 1800s. Instrumental in developing game.

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Tennis USA 80s

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Tennis USA 90s

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Tennis USA 70s

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Tennis USA

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Tennis Sweden

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Tennis Sweden

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Tennis Australia, won all 4 GS in one year twice in 60s

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Tennis USA 1930s-40s, first career grand slam

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Tennis USA, 18 grand slams

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Tennis Australia, 60s-70s. Won first ever open era grand slam

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Tennis, Yugoslavia/USA

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Mid 80s - mid 90s

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90s. Won first male golden slam

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23 GS, 4 consecutive in 2002 and 2014

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80s-90s. First person to win golden slam 1988

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80s, won 18 GS and 4 consecutive 1983

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Masters tournament US Open tournament Open tournament (UK) US PGA championship

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``` ANA inspiration US women's open Women's PGA championship Evans championship (France) Women's British Open ```

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Golf, USA, 30s-50s. Has won most women's majors (15)

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Golf USA 50s-60s

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Golf Sweden 90s-00s

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Golf, USA, 40s-50s

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Golf, Australia, 90s

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Golf, USA, 60s-70s

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Golf USA 10s-20s

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Golf UK 80s-90s

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Baron Pierre de Coubertin, 1896

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Boxing - illegal in sweden

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First gymnast to score perfect 10 at Olympics. Romania

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6 for women, 8 for men

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Invented trampoline

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Sprint in ancient Olympics

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100m, 200m, 400m 4x100m and 4x400m 110m/100m hurdles (men/women) and 400m hurdles

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``` Discus, hammer, javelin, shot put High jump Long jump Triple jump Pole vault ```

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Tug of war

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Fencing, swimming, show jumping | Combined running and shooting race

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1500m swim 40km cycle 10km run

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Men only in olympics ``` 100m & 400m 110m hurdles 1500m Long jump, high jump, pole vault Shot put, discus, javelin ```

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Women only in olympics 200m & 800m 100m hurdles High jump & long jump Shot put & javelin

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1932 Los Angeles - replaced with American football

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6 normal, 2 beach

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Sweden, because of quarantine rules

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Long jump and high jump for horses

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Blind swimming

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Swam in 2008 olympics and paralympics

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Discus, boxing, javelin, discus, boxing, wrestling

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Eric the eel. From equatorial guinea, won 100m swim in 2000 after all other competitors disqualified for false starts

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1968 Mexico

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Nancy Kerrigan - won silver in 1994

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Eddie the eagle

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Citius, Altius, Fortius Faster, higher, stronger

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1972 Munich - Palestinian terrorists tried to kidnap Israeli athletes, police raid went wrong and several killed 1996 Atlanta - bomb went off at concert to celebrate opening

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1976 Montreal - 22 African countries boycotted because of new Zealand participation, who had recently toured apartheid South Africa 1980 Moscow - US boycotted after soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1984 Los Angeles - USSR, communist couantries inc Cuba and Bulgaria boycotted in response to Moscow boycot

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1924 in Chamonix, France

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Half size of earth Similar day to earth 2 moons - phobos and deimos (named for horses pulling Aries chariot) Has largest volcano in solar system- Olympus Mons Thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and argon

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Twice as big as all other planets combined Hydrogen and helium atmosphere with clouds of ammonia and water 10 hour day More than 75 moons Great red spot is storm twice the size of worth, over 100 years old

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Atmosphere hydrogen and helium At least 53 moons including Enceladus (jets of water), Titan (methane lakes), Phoebe (cratered) 11 hour day Average density less than water

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Discovered by William Herschem 1781, observations by Johann Elert Bode who named it. Ice giant 13 rings, 27 moons names for Shakespeare and Alexander pope characters Rotates on its side Core is dense fluid of water, methane, ammonia Atmosphere is hydrogen and helium with small amount methane (gives blue colour)