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About Special Olympics World Winter Games 2025

Edition: 12th

Venue: Turin, Italy

Events: 8 sports

Starting: 8 March 2025

Closing: 15 March 2025

Additional Information:

Pakistan finished the event with a total of 11 medals, including 6 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze.

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In West Indies, the cricket team was the famous 3 W’s (Weeks, Warhol and Walcote).

The Three Ws Oval (Most commonly styled '3Ws Oval') is a cricket field at the entrance of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados

the 3Ws Oval was one of the team warm-up venues for the 2007 Cricket World Cup finals

Three Ws' of the West Indies, which included:

 Sir Frank Worrell,

Sir Clyde Walcott, 

and Sir Everton Weekes. Incidentally,

all three cricketers were born within a few miles of each other in Barbados.

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In June 2022, England hit a world record one-day international score of 498 against Netherlands and won the match by 232 runs in Amstelveen.

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Gymnastics was one of the original sports featured at the modern Olympic Games, which were first held in Athens, Greece in 1896. 

Men's gymnastics was included in the inaugural Olympics, with women's gymnastics being introduced later, at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics.

The 1896 Olympics featured five gymnastics events for men, including:

1. Horizontal bar
2. Parallel bars
3. Pommel horse
4. Rings
5. Vault

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Penalty spot (from the goal line): 12 yards (11m).

Goal area length: 6 yards (5.5m).

Penalty area length: 18 yards (16.5m).

Centre circle radius: 10 yards (9.15m).

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• The Asian Games are also known as Asiad.
• Asiad is a continental multisport athletic event held every four years.
• The first Asian Games were organized in New Delhi, India in 1951.
• Asian games are regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF).
• Trick Asian contain Asiad word itself.

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The United States of America (USA) has won the most number of gold medals at the Paris Olympic Games 2024.

US won a total of 40 Gold Medals

US won a total of 44 Silver Medals

US won a total of 42 Bronze Medals

US won a total of 126 Medals

After the US, China comes second with 40 Gold, 27 Silver & 24 Bronze medals 

China won a total of 91 medals 

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Handball was introduced in Denmark in the late 19th century.

The first written set of team handball rules was published in 1906 by a Danish gym teacher, Holger Nielsen.

Denmark is considered the birthplace of modern handball.

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Rival captains Aaron Finch of Australia and Kane Williamson of New Zealand

Player of the match: Mitch Marsh

Player of the tournament: David Warner

Australia men win the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup in 2021 

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But there is also a rule that says it's a false start if a runner leaves within 0.1 seconds AFTER the gun sounds

The idea being that nobody could possibly react that quickly to the gun.

 His reaction time was measured at 0.099 seconds.