Field hockey is a sport played internationally by both men and women including the Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games, the quadrennial Hockey World Cups, the annual Champions Trophies and World Cups for juniors.

By 1954, Olympic Games apparatus and events for both men and women had been standardized in modern format, and uniform grading structures ( including a point system from 1 to 15 ) had been agreed upon.

All 12 Olympic and 36 IIHF World Women's Championships medals have gone to one of these seven countries, and every gold medal in both competitions has been won by either Canada or the United States.

" Magdi Gohary and Mohammad Khadif, both Egyptian advisers to the Arab League, and A. D. Touny, an Egyptian member of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) also helped try to win concessions from the kidnappers, but to no avail.

Thorpe entered the U. S. Olympic trials for both the pentathlon and the decathlon.

Despite the initial success, the Olympic Movement faced hard times, as the 1900 ( in De Coubertin's own Paris ) and 1904 Games were both swallowed by World's Fairs, and received little attention.

On 19 June, Nurmi tried out the 1924 Olympic schedule by running the 1, 500 m and the 5, 000 m inside an hour, setting new world records for both distances.

The Finnish Olympic Committee entered Nurmi for both the 10, 000 m and the marathon.

From 1984 through 1992, the Summer Olympic Games featured solo and duet competitions, but they both were dropped in 1996 in favor of team competition.

Singles and doubles are both played in international competition, including the Olympic Games since 1988 and the Commonwealth Games since 2002.

While there are relatively few competitive Olympic weightlifters ( or more simply lifters ), the lifts and their components are commonly used by elite athletes in other sports to train for both explosive and functional strength.

National Olympic Committees and National Paralympic Committees are both a type of National Federation, as they are responsible for a country's participation in the Olympic Games and in the Paralympic Games respectively.

At the Olympic Winter Games and World Championships, all competitions ( for both men and women ) consist of four heats.

Because of this financial and political instability, both prime minister Trikoupis and Stephanos Dragoumis, the president of the Zappas Olympic Committee, which had attempted to organise a series of national Olympiads, believed that Greece could not host the event.

The weight was reduced to for the 1996 Olympic Games, after a study demonstrated that both the horse's arc over a fence became shallower and the leading leg took a great deal of extra force on landing when the horse was carrying dead weight than when free from the burden.

Top-line studios such as Olympic Studios in London, Fine Recording in New York City, United Western Recorders, and Musart in Los Angeles quickly became among the most sought-after recording facilities in the world, and both these studios became veritable " hit factories " that produced many of the most successful pop recordings of the latter 20th century.

Thorpe entered the U. S. Olympic trials for both the pentathlon and the decathlon.

Although Figure Skating had been an Olympic event in both London and Antwerp, and Ice Hockey had been an event in Antwerp, the winter sports had always been rather limited by the season.

In fact, in the same year that both poets celebrated Pherenicus's Olympic victory, Pindar also composed an ode for Theron of Acragas ( Olympian 2 ), in which he likens himself to an eagle confronted with chattering ravens – possibly a reference to Bacchylides and his uncle.

Powerlifting is a strength sport that resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts.

Although at that time there were 42 recognized lifts, the “ Strength Set ” ( Curl, Bench Press, and Squat ) soon became the standard competition lifts, and both organizations held Championships on these lifts ( as well as on the Olympic lifts ) until 1965.

The PRC also pressured the International Olympic Committee to use the pseudonym " Chinese Taipei " to eliminate the appearance of the " Republic of China " or " Taiwan " ( Which would both suggest that Taiwan and the PRC are separate nations ) as names in the Olympics.

With seven metres to go Wells began an extreme lean which allowed his head and shoulder to cross the finish line before Leonard's chest in a photo finish ; both men were given a final time of 10. 25 s. Wells became the oldest Olympic 100 m champion at that time.

However, 2009 proved to be her most successful year as Zhao won both the prestigious All-England and BWF World Championships in women's doubles with Zhang Yawen.

One or the other pair has captured all of the BWF World Championships held since 2000, with Zhang and Yang winning in both 2005 and 2007 by defeating Gao and Huang in the finals.

They bested the same team in winning both the 2005 and 2007 BWF World Championships.

In the early 1980s the IBF ( BWF ) revamped the formats of both Thomas Cup and the women's world team championship, the Uber Cup.

In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.

Yesterday, I had the privilege of reading a thoughtful article in the U.S. News & World Report of May 8 which discussed this type of action in more detail, including both its advantages and its disadvantages.

The cubist generation before World War 1,, and, on a lower level, the surrealists of the period between the wars, both assumed an accepted universe of discourse, in which, to quote Andre Breton, it was possible to make definite advances, exactly as in the sciences.

The Yankee triumph made Ralph Houk only the third man to lead a team to both a pennant and a World Series victory in his first year as a manager.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

Since the Second World War, both theoretical and experimental fields have advanced at a rapid pace.

During the First World War, because of his family connections with both sides and the division of popular opinion, Spain remained neutral.

After World War II, especially in North America, there was a boom in general aviation, both private and commercial, as thousands of pilots were released from military service and many inexpensive war-surplus transport and training aircraft became available.

Towards the end of World War I, armies on both sides were experimenting with plate armour as protection against shrapnel and ricocheting projectiles.

A great variety of armored cars appeared on both sides during World War I and these were used in various ways.

In Austria, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist insurgents ( The Black Hand ) is blamed for igniting World War I after a succession of minor conflicts, while belligerents on both sides in World War II used operatives specifically trained for assassination.

Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems ' wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th century English composers ( beginning with Arthur Somervell ) both before and after the First World War.

Berlin was devastated by bombing raids during World War II, and many of the buildings that had remained after the war were demolished in the 1950s and 1960s in both West and East Berlin.

Between World War II and 1990, both democratic and military governments sought to expand Brazil's influence in the world by pursuing a state-led industrial policy and an independent foreign policy.

However, it was clear that the central geopolitical position of Bulgaria in the Balkans would inevitably lead to strong external pressure by both World War II factions.

The invention of military submarines, during World War I, brought naval warfare to both above and below the surface.

Dry beans come from both Old World varieties of broad beans ( fava beans ) and New World varieties ( kidney, black, cranberry, pinto, navy / haricot ).

The outbreak of World War I forced him to stop the expeditions, and he returned to composing, writing the ballet The Wooden Prince in 1914 – 16 and the String Quartet No. 2 in 1915 – 17, both influenced by Debussy.

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

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