Athletic jump smashes, where players jump upwards for a steeper smash angle, are a common and spectacular element of elite men's doubles play.

A women's tournament was added in 1996 ; in contrast to the men's event, full international sides without age restrictions play the women's Olympic tournament.

The first woman to qualify for the men's title through achievement in tournament play was Susan Polgar in 1991.

Polgár's older sister, Susan, first fought the bureaucracy by playing in men's tournaments and refusing to play in women's tournaments.

Common tournament configurations include men's singles, women's singles, and doubles, where two players play on each side of the net.

Grand Slam men's tournaments have best-of-five set matches while the women play best-of-three.

However, the men's and women's pro tours play matches that are the best-of-five games to 11 points, requiring a two-point margin for victory.

The group continued to play gigs at dance halls and working men's clubs in South Wales.

The Hyoshigi, Chanpon, Surigane, Taiko, and Fue were traditionally the men's instruments but are now acceptable for women to play.

This barbecue also serves as an opportunity for the men's rugby club to play a match against the alumni who return for the event.

Second, in the play Jocasta has not killed herself at the discovery of her incest-otherwise she could not play the prologue, for fathomable reasons-nor has Oedipus fled into exile, but they have stayed in Thebes only to delay their doom until the fatal duel of their sons / brothers / nephews Eteocles and Polynices: Jocasta commits suicide over the two men's dead bodies, and Antigone follows Oedipus into exile.

All of RIT's teams compete at the Division III level, with the exception of the men's and women's ice hockey programs, which play at the Division I level.

The most plausible story is what his wife, Sharon, later told interviewers is that in 1967, while currently unemployed and recovering from his collapsed lung ailment, Holmes would attend a men's card playing club which was called the Poker Palace, located in Gardena, California, a few evenings a week to play cards with a few friends where a photographer, standing next to Holmes at a men's room urinal, saw his unusually large penis size and then gave him his business card with an offer to pose in still photographs.

The men's and women's basketball teams play at the J. Ollie Edmunds Center, an on-campus arena which opened in 1974 and seats approximately 5, 000 spectators.

Dunking is much less common in women's basketball than in men's play.

The Farnham and Aldershot hockey club runs six senior men's teams, four senior women's teams who play in the South, Hampshire and Surrey leagues.

* SKS Starogard Gdański, men's basketball team promoted to play in Era Basket Liga in the 2004 / 2005 season.

" This line is also included in the film – after Richard concludes his opening speech to Edward, he enters the men's room and continues in soliloquy form to line twenty-seven of Richard III before then referring back to the earlier play " Why, I can smile and murder while I smile / And wet my cheeks with artificial tears / And frame my face to all occasions " ( ll.

It has also played host to the Coliseo Guillermo Angulo, where the BSN's Gigantes de Carolina play, as well as the Gigantes of Puerto Rican women's professional basketball, the Gigantes of men's professional volleyball, and the Gigantes of women's professional volleyball.

UNBC will begin play in men's and women's soccer and basketball in September 2012 ".

The Ferris State Bulldogs men's ice hockey | Ferris State Bulldogs on a 5-on-3 power play against the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey | Michigan Wolverines.

With thirty franchised member clubs ( 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada ), the NBA is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.

Gretzky debuted with the Team Canada's men's team at the 1981 Canada Cup.

For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he was named Special Advisor to the Canada men's national ice hockey team.

** 1936 Summer Olympics: The United States men's national basketball team wins the first Olympic basketball tournament in the final game over Canada, 19 – 8.

Both the men's and women's tournaments were won by Canada, defeating the host USA in both games.

* Fabian Joseph, former Captain of the Canada men's national ice hockey team, two-time Olympic Silver medalist

), Jeremy Wotherspoon, also of Canada becomes the champion in the men's competition ( 2.

* Robert Stewart ( basketball ), Canadian basketball player from the 1970s, see Canada national men's basketball team

* Canada defeats the United States 5-2 to win the men's Olympic Gold Medal.

Only three men's teams competed — two from Canada and one from the United States of America.

The Minto Cup is awarded annually to the champion junior men's lacrosse team of Canada.

It was donated in 1901 by the Governor-General, Lord Minto, and from 1901 until 1909 awarded to the senior men's champion of Canada.

In 1901, Lord Minto donated the Minto Cup and appointed trustees to oversee its annual awarding to the champion senior men's lacrosse team of Canada ( since 1937 the Cup has been awarded to the junior men's champions ).

Major League Lacrosse, or MLL, is a professional men's field lacrosse league that is made up of seven teams in the United States and one team in Canada.

Following the season, Yallop returned to his native Canada to coach the Canadian men's national soccer team.

Due to its success in its primary markets, Maxim has expanded into many other countries, including Argentina, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, Belgium, Romania, the Czech Republic, France ( marketed under " Maximal "), Germany, Bulgaria, Brazil, Chile, Greece, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia ( where it stands now as the most popular men's magazine ), Serbia, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine and Portugal.

* The Canada national rugby union team ( men's ) is officially nicknamed " Canucks ".

The United Soccer Leagues First Division ( usually referred to as simply USL-1 ) was a professional men's soccer league in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

Rider fans have been referred to as the best fans in the league and were ranked the rowdiest fans of any sports team in Canada by MSN Sports, ranking ahead of the Canada men's national junior ice hockey team and the Montreal Canadiens.

He has also figured in the Canada men's national soccer team.

It was named in honour of Lester B. Pearson, who was Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968, the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize, and a former player and coach for the University of Toronto Varsity Blues men's ice hockey team.

* Paul Rosen – Won Gold Medal for Canada playing goalie for the Canadian men's paralympic hockey team in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin