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“Faster, Higher, Stronger” is the motto of the Olympic Games. The Olympic motto is the “Citius, Altius, Fortius” whose  Latin meaning is “faster, higher, stronger”. It was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin upon the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who was an athletics enthusiast. Coubertin said, “These three words represent a programme of moral beauty. The aesthetics of sport are intangible”. The motto was introduced in 1924 at the Olympic Games in Paris.

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London is the first city ever to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games three times. In 2012, the United Kingdom hosted its third Summer Olympic Games in the capital city, London, which became the first city ever to have hosted the Summer Olympic Games three times. London has previously hosted the Summer Games in 1908 and in 1948.

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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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The correct measurement of a pitch in the cricket game is 20-meter long. Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

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South Africa’s national cricket team is nicknamed as the “Proteas”. The South Africa national cricket team also known as Proteas represents South Africa in men’s international cricket, is administered by Cricket South Africa. South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status. South Africa entered first-class and international cricket at the same time when they hosted an England cricket team in the 1888–89 season.

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In 1987 cricket world cup, Australia won its first “Cricket World Cup Champion” title. India and Pakistan jointly hosted the 1987 tournament, the first time that the competition was held outside England. Australia won the championship by defeating England by 7 runs in the final, the closest margin in the World Cup final until the 2019 edition between England and New Zealand.

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1999, 2003, 2007 Cricket World Cups are the three cricket world cups consecutively won by Australia. In 1999 the event was hosted by England. In the final, Australia dismissed Pakistan for 132 and then reached the target in less than 20 overs and with eight wickets in hand. South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya hosted the 2003 World Cup. In the final, Australia made 359 runs for the loss of two wickets, the largest ever total in a final, defeating India by 125 runs. In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies. Australia defeated Sri Lanka in the final by 53 runs (D/L) in farcical light conditions, and extended their undefeated run in the World Cup, winning three straight championships.

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Ricky Ponting holds the current record for most catches (fielder) in all the Cricket World Cup tournaments. He got a total of 28 catches between the cricket world cups of 1996 and 2011.

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Wisden is known as the “Bible of Cricket”. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, or simply Wisden, colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description “bible of cricket” was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh. In October 2013, an all-time Test World XI was announced to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.

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Virat Kohli was the 2018 Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World. He consecutively won the award three times from 2016 to 2018.