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There is no official Olympic medal table. The International Olympic Committee explicitly states that it does not recognise a ranking of countries, on the principle that the Games are contests between
They are two separate sports that split from a single game in 1895, over payment rather than rules. Northern English clubs wanted to compensate working players for missed shifts; the governing body
Par is the number of strokes an expert golfer is expected to need on a given hole. Every other term describes performance relative to it. On a par-4 hole, par is four strokes. Finishing in three is
Because of a decision made for the 1908 London Olympics, which was then adopted permanently in 1921. The distance has a founding legend attached to it: the runner Pheidippides supposedly ran from the
A no-ball is an illegal delivery. The batting side is awarded a run, the ball does not count towards the over, and the batter cannot be dismissed by most methods from it. There are several ways to
Tennis counts in three nested layers: points make games, games make sets, sets make the match. Points within a game run 15, 30, 40, then game. Zero is called love. So a player leading 30–15 has won
A player is offside if, at the moment a team-mate plays the ball to them, they are in the opponents' half and closer to the opponents' goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent — and