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France will host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, and commonly known as Paris 2024, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in Paris, France. Having previously played host in 1900 and 1924, Paris will become the second city to host the Olympics three times, after London (1908, 1948 and 2012).

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Norway leads the all-time Olympic Games medal table for Winter Olympic Games. Six of these countries have won medals at every Winter Olympic Games – Austria, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. The only country to have won a gold medal at every Winter Olympic Games is the United States.

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Festival of Empire event inspired the creation of the Commonwealth Games. As part of the festival, an Inter-Empire sports championship was held in which teams from Australasia (a combined team from Australia and New Zealand), Canada, South Africa, and the United Kingdom competed in five athletics events (100 yards, 220 yards, 880 yards, 1 mile and 120 yards hurdles), two swimming events (100 yards and 1 mile), heavyweight boxing and middleweight wrestling. This is regarded as a forerunner of the British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games), held from 1930.

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India hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The 2010 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010. It is the largest Commonwealth Games to date. It was also the largest international multi-sport event to be staged in Delhi and India, eclipsing the Asian Games in 1951 and 1982. The opening and closing ceremonies were held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main stadium of the event. The 2010 Commonwealth Games were reportedly the most expensive Commonwealth Games ever. It was also the second most expensive international multi-sport event ever held in Asia, after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

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India hosted its second Asian Games in the year 1982. The 9th Asian Games were held from November 19, 1982, to December 4, 1982, in Delhi, India. This was also the first Asiad to be held under the aegis of the Olympic Council of Asia. India first became the host of the first Asian Games in the year 1951.

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West Bengal houses the iconic Eden Gardens cricket ground. The Eden Gardens is an iconic cricket ground in Kolkata, India. Established in 1864, it is the oldest and second-largest cricket stadium in India after the newly built Sardar Patel Stadium (Motera Stadium) and third in the world after Sardar Patel Stadium and Melbourne Cricket Ground. The stadium currently has a capacity of 80,000.

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Sachin Tendulkar holds the current record for most runs in a single Cricket World Cup. He scored a total of 673 runs in the  2003 cricket world cup.

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Malaysia hosts the annual men’s field hockey tournament “Sultan Azlan Shah Cup”.

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Sweden is the birthplace of “Sledge Hockey”, an ice hockey variant for physically disabled people. Sledge hockey, also known as Para ice hockey, or sledge hockey, is an adaptation of ice hockey designed for players who have a physical disability. Invented in the early 1960s at a rehabilitation centre in Stockholm, Sweden, and played under similar rules to standard ice hockey, players are seated on sledges and use special hockey sticks with metal “teeth” on the tips of their handles to navigate the ice.

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The United States of America won the gold medal in the Para ice hockey in the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games. The Para ice hockey competition of the 2018 Winter Paralympics was held at Gangneung Hockey Centre, South Korea, from 10 to 18 March 2018