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Michael Jordan is an American basketball player. Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials MJ, is a former American professional basketball player. He played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls. His biography on the official NBA website states: “By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time”. He was integral in helping to popularize the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming a global cultural icon in the process.

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Indonesia, Japan, Philippines will jointly host the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup. The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 19th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for national men’s basketball teams. This will be the second tournament under the new cycle which started in 2019.

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Liu Shiwen is a Chinese table tennis player. Liu Shiwen is a Chinese table tennis player who is a 5-time World Cup champion, one-time World Champion, 3-time ITTF World Tour Grand Finals champion and 4-time Asian Cup champion. She is known to be one of the fastest players in the world.

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The T.League or Nojima T.League is the premier table tennis league of Japan which began in 2018. It is the first professional table tennis league in Japan.

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Jean-Philippe Gatien is a French table tennis player. He competed at four Olympics from 1988 to 2000, winning silver in the singles at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and bronze in doubles (with Patrick Chila) at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He won the World Table Tennis Championships in 1993, the Table Tennis World Cup in 1994, and was 13-time “champion de France”. His long list of victories makes him the greatest French table tennis player of all time.

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In the 2002 Commonwealth Games, table tennis was introduced for the first time. Table tennis competition has been in the Commonwealth Games as an optional sport since 2002, with singles and doubles events for both men and women.

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In February 1971, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first person to golf anywhere other than Earth. He smuggled a golf club and two golf balls on board Apollo 14 with the intent to golf on the Moon. He attempted two drives. He shanked the first attempt, but it is estimated his second went more than 200 yards (180 m).

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Lorena Ochoa is a former Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010. She was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks (both are LPGA Tour records). As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world, she is considered the best Mexican golfer and the best Latin American female golfer of all time. Ochoa was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017.

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The Marquess of Queensberry Rules, also known as Queensbury Rules, are a code of generally accepted rules in the sport of boxing. Drafted in London in 1865 and published in 1867, they were named so as the 9th Marquess of Queensberry publicly endorsed the code, although they were written by a Welsh sportsman named John Graham Chambers. The code of rules on which modern boxing is based, the Queensberry rules were the first to mandate the use of gloves in boxing.

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James J. Corbett is the first world boxing heavyweight champion under the Queensbury Rules. The first world heavyweight champion under the Queensberry Rules was “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, who defeated John L. Sullivan in 1892 at the Pelican Athletic Club in New Orleans.