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Only six nations have participated in every Commonwealth Games: Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. Of these six, Australia, England, Canada and New Zealand have each won at least one gold medal in every Games. Australia has been the highest achieving team for thirteen editions of the Games, England for seven, and Canada for one. These three teams also top the all-time Commonwealth Games medal table in that order.

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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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In the 1968 Winter Olympics, Grenoble, a city of France, Olympic mascot have first started using. Since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, the Olympic Games have had a mascot, usually an animal native to the area or occasionally human figures representing the cultural heritage. Nowadays, most of the merchandise aimed at young people focus on the mascots, rather than the Olympic flag or organization logos.

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The 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta is also known as the “Centennial Olympic Games”. The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, commonly known as Atlanta 1996, and also referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games, were an international multi-sport event that was held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia. These Games, which were the fourth Summer Olympics to be hosted by the United States, marked the centennial of the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens—the inaugural edition of the modern Olympic Games.

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In the year 2010, the first Youth Olympic Games was held. The Youth Olympic Games is an international multi-sport event organized by the International Olympic Committee. The games are held every four years in summer and winter events consistent with the current Olympic Games format. The first summer version was held in Singapore from 14 to 26 August 2010 while the first winter version was held in Innsbruck, Austria from 13 to 22 January 2012.

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Melville Marks Robinson is the father of the modern Commonwealth Games. The Commonwealth Games is an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. Their creation was inspired by the Inter-Empire Championships, as a part of the Festival of Empire, which were held in London, the United Kingdom in 1911. Melville Marks Robinson founded the games as the British Empire Games which were first hosted in Hamilton, Canada in 1930.

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Kerala, in the states category, came to the first position in the 2015 National games of India. Kerala, in the states category, came to the top position with 54 gold medals, 48 silver medals and 60 bronze medals, thereby totalling 162 medals.

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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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In the year 1971, the first Limited over International (One Day International (ODI)) cricket match was held. Cricket entered a new era in 1963 when English counties introduced the limited overs variant. As it was sure to produce a result, limited overs cricket was lucrative and the number of matches increased. The first Limited Overs International was played in 1971.

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Rosalind Heggs took the most wickets in the first Women’s Cricket World Cup held in 1973. The 1973 Women’s Cricket World Cup was the first tournament of its kind, held two years before the first limited-overs World Cup for men in 1975. The competition was won by the hosts, England. The competition was the brainchild of businessman Sir Jack Hayward. England topped the group, including five victories and one defeat, while Australia were runners up with four wins.