The event has been the biggest sporting event ever held in Wales, however it would not have been possible without the financial support given by the WRU and the Cardiff Athletic Club.

Acclaimed the biggest sporting figure in the world at his peak, Nurmi was averse to publicity and the media, stating later on his 75th birthday that " worldly fame and reputation are worth less than a rotten lingonberry.

Although the Super Bowl had grown into America's biggest one-day sporting event by this point, many believe the 13th edition began the game's evolution to unofficial national holiday.

" Sports Illustrated considered the activity a sport in 1987, describing the Drum Corps International World Championships “ one of the biggest sporting events of the summer .” In the same article, Sports Illustrated quoted basketball coach Bobby Knight, " If a basketball team trained as hard as these kids do, it would be unbelievable.

Football ground sectioned off for children's matches ( 2011 ) The Hong Kong Rugby Sevens is traditionally one of if not the biggest event on the Hong Kong sporting calendar.

The club is the biggest sporting entity in the town.

The popularity of State of Origin matches since then has not waned and they remain one of Australia's ( and indeed the region's ) biggest sporting events.

It is the biggest sporting deal in the history of South Africa, and it took the PSL into the top 15 ranked leagues in the world in terms of commercial broadcast deals.

The biggest contribution in the 1960s and much of the 1970s was in the field of voice acting with many major television productions like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Spider-Man sporting Canadian voice actors like Paul Soles and Paul Kligman.

It became known as the best organized rally competition after the Monte Carlo Rally, and as Finland's biggest sporting event by audience count.

Spartak responded by winning the next championship thus starting one of the biggest sporting and political rivalries in world football.

The biggest sporting club in the area are the Menai Hawks soccer club.

BUCS has the biggest sporting programme in Europe.

The biggest national sporting event in Ireland is the final of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, held annually in Croke Park, usually in September.

In 2003, Ireland hosted the Special Olympics World Summer Games, which was the biggest sporting event ever held in the country.

In New England, they ranked as the biggest draw of any sporting event except their parent club, the Red Sox at Fenway Park.

Today, Sport Aid is still the biggest sporting event ever organized.

It is considered to be Australia's " premier sports precinct ", and regularly hosts some of the biggest domestic and international sporting events, including the AFL Grand Final ( Australian rules football ), Australian Open ( tennis ) and Boxing Day Test ( cricket ).

Manchester's biggest popular music venue is the Manchester Evening News Arena, which seats over twenty thousand and is the largest arena of its type in Europe, with the City of Manchester Stadium and Old Trafford's cricket grounds also providing large ad-hoc open air venues outside of the sporting season.

The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, usually held on the first Sunday of September, is one of Ireland's biggest sporting occasions, the culmination of a provincial, knock-out competition between Ireland's thirteen best hurling teams.

The Belgrade Marathon is one of the biggest sporting events in Serbia.

The 2005 championships had over 3, 000 entrants and is currently the world's biggest indoor rowing event and Britain's biggest mass-participation indoor sporting event.

The Giants ' rivalry with the Dodgers is one of the longest-standing rivalries and is regarded one of the biggest in American baseball.

The Dodgers – Giants rivalry is one of the greatest longest-standing rivalries and is regarded the biggest in American baseball.

Historically, their biggest rivals have been the New York Rangers, with an intense rivalry stretching back to the 1970s, the New Jersey Devils, with whom they traded the Atlantic Division title every season between and, and their bitter cross-state rivals the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The paper became engaged in a sometimes tense rivalry with its fellow weekly music paper Melody Maker ; however, NME sales were healthy with the paper selling as many as 200, 000 issues per week, making it one of the UK's biggest sellers.

Before election into the Football League, Cambridge City were regarded as the club's biggest rivals, although the rivalry has since waned signigicantly.

Les Ambassadeurs and Rail Band were the two biggest bands in the country, and a fierce rivalry developed.

Mississippi College's biggest rivalry is with Millsaps College in nearby Jackson.

Port Talbot's biggest rivals are considered to be Afan Lido, located less than half a mile away, the rivalry is one of the fiercest in South Wales.

He mentioned that despite sharing the biggest rivalry of their careers, they always shared mutual admiration for professional wrestling.

It is the biggest rivalry in football.

* Real Madrid vs Barcelona – Not a local derby, but an extension of the clubs ' football rivalry, the biggest in the country.

This capitalises upon the healthy rivalry that New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, has with the rest of the country.

Željezničar has a fierce rivalry with their city-rivals Sarajevo, which is known as the Sarajevo derby, the biggest derby in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The rivalry also has a root in the fact that Sarajevo and Banja Luka are, by a good margin, the two biggest cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the first being also the capital of the whole country while the second takes the role as the de facto capital of Republika Srpska entity.

Copenhagen has had a fierce rivalry with Copenhagen suburban club Brøndby IF, and the so-called " New Firm " games between the two sides have attracted some of the biggest crowds in Danish football history.

Their biggest rivalry though is with Dunfermline Athletic, with the Fife Derby encounter at East End Park in April 2011, attracting a crowd of over 11 000.

Copenhagen in 1992, the two clubs have had a fierce rivalry, and the so-called " New Firm " games between the two sides attract the biggest crowds in Danish football.

* Melbourne Victory — The City Derby — The clash between Australia's two biggest cities is considered the biggest rivalry in the league by both sets of fans.

After being stagnant for the seasons to follow, the rivalry between the biggest club in their respective states re-ignited after Sydney FC ended the Brisbane Roar's record-breaking 36-game unbeaten streak in the A-League on 4 December 2011.

However the biggest rival is with fellow North Belfast club Crusaders, the rivalry is known as the North Belfast derby.

Mundine's biggest Australian rivalry is with Perth-based Danny Green.

The biggest rivalry is against the arch-rival Aris.

Travis ' biggest rivalry is with fellow AISD school, McCallum High School.