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“Faster, Higher, Stronger” is the motto of the Olympic Games. The Olympic motto is the “Citius, Altius, Fortius” whose  Latin meaning is “faster, higher, stronger”. It was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin upon the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who was an athletics enthusiast. Coubertin said, “These three words represent a programme of moral beauty. The aesthetics of sport are intangible”. The motto was introduced in 1924 at the Olympic Games in Paris.

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The “Commonwealth Games” are normally held every four years. The Commonwealth Games is an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, has taken place every four years since then.

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Commonwealth Game’s traditional ceremony is “Queen’s Baton Relay”. The Commonwealth Games is an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The Queen’s Baton Relay is a relay around the world held prior to the beginning of the Commonwealth Games. The Baton carries a message from the Head of the Commonwealth, currently Queen Elizabeth II. The Relay traditionally begins at Buckingham Palace in London as a part of the city’s Commonwealth Day festivities. The Queen entrusts the baton to the first relay runner. At the Opening Ceremony of the Games, the final relay runner hands the baton back to the Queen or her representative, who reads the message aloud to officially open the Games. The Queen’s Baton Relay is similar to the Olympic Torch Relay.

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Australia hosted the 2018 Commonwealth Games. The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, between 4 and 15 April 2018. It was the fifth time Australia had hosted the Commonwealth Games and the first time a major multi-sport event achieved gender equality by having an equal number of events for male and female athletes.

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The first Commonwealth Youth Games was held in the United Kingdom. The Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) is an international multi-sport event organized by the Commonwealth Games Federation. The games are held every four years with the current Commonwealth Games format. The first version was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, part of the United Kingdom, from 10 to 14 August 2000. The age limitation of the athletes is 14 to 18.

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The “Friends Provident Trophy” was a Cricket competition. The Friends Provident Trophy was a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom. It was one of the four tournaments in which the eighteen first-class counties competed each season. They were joined by teams from Scotland and Ireland. Lancashire won the title a record seven times.

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West Bengal houses the iconic Eden Gardens cricket ground. The Eden Gardens is an iconic cricket ground in Kolkata, India. Established in 1864, it is the oldest and second-largest cricket stadium in India after the newly built Sardar Patel Stadium (Motera Stadium) and third in the world after Sardar Patel Stadium and Melbourne Cricket Ground. The stadium currently has a capacity of 80,000.

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“Don Bradman” was an Australian international cricketer. Sir Donald George Bradman (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed “The Don”, was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman’s career test batting average of 99.94 has been cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.

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In the year 1975, the first Cricket World Cup was held. Cricket entered a new era in 1963 when English counties introduced the limited overs variant. As it was sure to produce a result, limited overs cricket was lucrative and the number of matches increased. The first Limited Overs International was played in 1971 and the governing International Cricket Council (ICC), seeing its potential, staged the first limited overs Cricket World Cup in 1975.

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Glenn Turner got the most runs in the first Cricket World Cup of 1975. The 1975 Cricket World Cup (officially called the Prudential Cup ’75) was the inaugural Cricket World Cup and the first major tournament in the history of One Day International (ODI) cricket. Organised by the International Cricket Conference (ICC), it took place in England between 7 June and 21 June 1975.