These retained great importance as also in the other big Festivals, although with the new rearrangement of the Pythian even the gymnastic competitions and the chariot racing and horse riding found its introduction to the games.

These include the Suva sports stadium, built for the South Pacific Games of 2003.

These include the Winter Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Junior Championships, the European Championships, the Four Continents Championships, and the Grand Prix series ( senior and junior ).

These torches and relay tradition were introduced in 1936 Summer Olympics by Carl Diem, the chairman of the event because during the duration of the Ancient Olympic Games in Olympia, a sacred flame burns inside of the temple of Hera, kept in custody by her priestess.

These were the last Games until after the First World War.

These Olympic games were the first since September 11, 2001, which meant a higher level of security than ever before provided for the Games.

These competitions include the Special Olympics World Games, which alternate between summer and winter games.

These games also replaced the now redundant Nordic Games, that were held quadrennially since early in the century.

These Games were held in Scandinavia, and the sports conducted were winter sports such as cross-country skiing and speed skating.

These were usually directed for a selected group of athletes, rather than everybody, which was — basically — the case with the Olympic Games.

These allow owners to secrete on command any of a wide selection of synthetic drugs, from the merely relaxing to the mind-altering: ' Snap ' is described in Use of Weapons and The Player of Games as " The Culture's favourite breakfast drug ".

These were the first Olympic Games held in Canada, preceding the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

These were the last Olympic Games for two of the world's " dominating " sport powers, the Soviet Union and East Germany, as both ceased to exist before the next Olympic Games.

These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America, the first to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country, and the first to be staged in a developing country.

* These games were the first to bear the name " Summer Olympic Games ".

These Games also included art competitions, which the IOC no longer considers as official medal events.

These were followed by two Christmas specials: one 10-minute sketch as part of an anthology presented by Frank Muir, and then the hour-long " Party Games ", in 1984.

* These were the first Games to feature an Olympic Village.

These were Lily Tomlin, a gay actress and comedian ; Peter Tatchell, a world-renowned gay rights campaigner ; Don Baxter, Executive Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations at that time ; Bev Lange, Chief Executive Officer of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation at the time, a former President of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and a former co-chair of the Sydney Gay Games ; Lex Watson and Sue Wills, Campaign Against Moral Prosecution's ( CAMP ) first Co-Presidents ; and Hannah Williams and Savannah Supski, who had recently protested against the ban against same-sex couples at Hannah's Melbourne school formal.

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These Games also were the first games to have all athlete registration go through the NOCs.

These are considered to be the first Paralympic Games.

These Games were the first to include Winter events, as had originally been proposed for the Games.

These contend there is a serious question as to whether Mr. Wagner has the confidence of the Democratic rank and file in the city.

These are more or less the groups of Lie type of odd characteristic of large rank, and alternating groups, together with some sporadic groups.

These eschatological myths appeared " in the Crusades, in the movements of a Tanchelm and an Eudes de l ' Etoile, in the elevation of Fredrick II to the rank of Messiah, and in many other collective messianic, utopian, and prerevolutionary phenomena ".

These were characteristically derived from the rank insignia of the various paramilitary organizations of the Nazi Party, which had control over them, and not of the regular Wehrmacht.

These categories, he argued, are " of the highest order of abstraction ", but he defended them as those necessary to " make possible a coherent account of what grammar is and of its place in language " In articulating the category unit, Halliday proposed the notion of a rank scale.

These tests do not give criterion-based judgments as to whether students have met a single standard of what every student is expected to know and do: they merely rank the students in comparison with each other.

These groups are informal and are not understood to have any particular taxonomic rank.

These groups had their own uniforms with a modification of SS rank titles and insignia.

These did not seem to have anything to do with the Romulans ' position or rank.

These included Muslim sailors being " paid a fixed wage " in advance " with an understanding that they would owe money in the event of desertion or malfeasance, in keeping with Islamic conventions " in which contracts should specify " a known fee for a known duration ", in contrast to Roman and Byzantine sailors who were " stakeholders in a maritime venture, in as much as captain and crew, with few exceptions, were paid proportional divisions of a sea venture's profit, with shares allotted by rank, only after a voyage's successful conclusion.

These bows indicate respect and acknowledgment of social rank, but do not necessarily imply obeisance.

These concepts are: system, ( meta ) function, and rank.

These first three installments in the Die Hard series grossed over US $ 700 million internationally and propelled Willis to the first rank of Hollywood action stars.

These radical concepts — including ultimate devotion to the Emperor, regardless of rank or clan — put him at odds with the reigning shogunate.

These marshes rank among the most fertile of Germany's soils.

These numbers routinely rank among the lowest per capita incomes and highest poverty rates in the state of Indiana.

These systems have increased the importance of international tournaments by incentivising rank promotion through international placement.

These scores were then totaled to determine its overall rank on the list of micropolitan areas.

These had always been small in relation to their ducal rank and the size of their house.

These schools are often heavily over-subscribed, and award places in rank order of performance in their entry tests.

These ranks, staff sergeant through sergeant major, are always referred to by their full rank and never merely as " sergeant ".

These days, the rank " Bailiff " is not in used in the Netherlands, but there is one exception.

These devices are used to display the rank of his office and are used on special occasions.

These are as in standard shogi, except that the promotion zone is the farthest rank away from you.