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Thomas Bach is the current President of the International Olympic Committee. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The IOC is the governing body of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), which are the national constituents of the worldwide Olympic Movement.

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In the year 1896, the first Summer Olympic Games was conducted. The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was the first international Olympic Games held in modern history. Organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which had been created by Pierre de Coubertin, it was held in Athens, Greece, from 6 to 15 April 1896.

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Israel was the target country of the infamous “Munich massacre” in the 1972 Summer Olympics, Munich. The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, who took nine members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage, after killing two of them previously, and killing them along with a West German police officer. The motive was Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Commonwealth Games is the world’s first multi-sport event which inducts an equal number of women’s and men’s medal events. The Commonwealth Games is an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. It is also the world’s first multi-sport event which inducts an equal number of women’s and men’s medal events and was implemented recently in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Because of this unique action, the World Economic Forum called the event inspiring and significant.

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In the year 2000, the first Commonwealth Youth Games were held. 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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Gordon Smallacombe won the first-ever gold medal in the history of the Commonwealth Games. Gordon Smallacombe was a Canadian track and field athlete who competed in jumping events. He was the gold medallist in the triple jump at the 1930 British Empire Games, becoming the inaugural champion in the event with a jump of 14.76 m. It was in fact the very first gold medal won in the history of the British Empire (later Commonwealth) Games. He remains the only Canadian man to win that title.

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In New Delhi, the first modern National Games of India, on the lines of the Olympics were held. For several years in the mid-twentieth century, the national games were conducted on a low keynote. However, the first Modern National Games on the lines of the Olympics were held in 1985 in New Delhi. Thereafter Kerala (1987), Pune-Maharashtra (1994), Bangalore-Karnataka (1997), Manipur (1999), Ludhiana-Punjab (2001), Hyderabad-Andhra Pradesh (2002), Guwahati-Assam (2007), Ranchi-Jharkhand (2011), and Kerala (2015) hosted the Games.

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Australia won the Cricket World Cup most number of times. The most successful side playing international cricket is Australia, which has won seven One Day International trophies, including five World Cups, more than any other country and has been the top-rated Test side more than any other country.

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In the year 1992, Pakistan won its first Cricket World Cup Champion title. The 1992 Cricket World Cup (officially the Benson & Hedges World Cup 1992) was the fifth staging of the Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was held in Australia and New Zealand from 22 February to 25 March 1992 and finished with Pakistan beating England by 22 runs in the final to become the World Cup champions for the first time.

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Sri Lanka was opposite to India in the final match of the 2011 Cricket World Cup, in which India won its second world cup champion title. The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It was played in India, Sri Lanka, and, for the first time, Bangladesh. India won the tournament, defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, thus becoming the first country to win the Cricket World Cup final on home soil. This was the first time in World Cup history that two Asian teams had appeared in the final. It was also the first time since the 1992 World Cup that the final match did not feature Australia.