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    The Cotswold Olimpick Games is an annual public celebration of games and sports now held on the Friday after Spring Bank Holiday near Chipping Campden...
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    best known as the founder and for many years the director of the Cotswold Olimpick Games. Robert was probably born between 1575 and 1582 in Norfolk, one...
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    of the most popular events at the Cotswold Olimpick Games from 1612 until the Games ended in the 1850s. When the Games were revived, in 1951, the sport...
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    British Olympic Association Cotswold Olimpick Games International Olympic Committee Shin-kicking Robert Dover (Cotswold Games) Beale, Catherine (2011)....
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    known for the annual Cotswold Olimpick Games, a celebration of sports and games dating to the early 17th century. Of the Cotswolds' nearly 800 square miles...
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    The Invictus Games is an international multi-sport event first held in 2014, for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women, both serving and veterans...
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    since the 17th century. The first such event was the Cotswold Games or "Cotswold Olimpick Games", an annual meeting near Chipping Campden, England, involving...
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    Chipping Campden (category Cotswold District)
    been home to a championship of rural games, which later turned into Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpick Games. The games were discontinued in 1852 but revived...
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  • The National Games of India consist of various disciplines in which athletes from the different states of India participate against each other. The country's...
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    Games Jeux de la Francophonie Lusofonia Games Mediterranean Games Island Games African Games Asian Games SEA Games Pacific Games Pan American Games South...
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    regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until the 1978 Games. Since the 1982 Games, they have been organized...
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    the Middle Ages in Europe, including the Cotswold Olimpick Games in England in the 1600s, the Highland Games in Scotland, and the Olympiade de la République...
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    The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event...
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  • Panhellenic Games is the collective term for four separate sports festivals held in ancient Greece. The four Games were: Olympia Delphi Isthmia Nemea The...
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    Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG), are the annual national level multidisciplinary grassroot games in India held in January or February for two categories...
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  • Robert Dover, founder and for many years the director of the Cotswold Olimpick Games, was a scholar at the University of Cambridge in 1595, possibly as a...
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    The ancient Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ta Olympia) were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and were...
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    The Gay Games is a worldwide sport and cultural event that promotes acceptance of sexual diversity, featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender...
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  • Special Olympics World Summer Games, officially known as the XVII Special Olympic World Games or the Special Olympics World Games Santiago 2027 (Spanish: Juegos...
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    The Special Olympics World Games also known as Special Olympiad are an international sporting event for participants with intellectual disabilities, organized...
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    The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes...
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    The African Games, formally known as the All-Africa Games or the Pan African Games, are a continental multi-sport event held every four years, organized...
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    Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held in Chamonix, France. The modern Olympic Games were inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, which were...
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    The ASEAN Para Games is a biennial multi-sport event held after every Southeast Asian Games involving disabled athletes from the current 11 Southeast Asia...
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    The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not...
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  • The X Games are a series of action sports events founded by ESPN Inc.. In late 2022, ESPN sold the long-running property to MSP Sports Capital, a private...
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  • BRICS Games is a yearly multi-sport event organised by the countries of BRICS. The event is generally organized by the country which holds the chairmenship...
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  • The Arab Games (Arabic: الألعاب العربية), formerly called the Pan-Arab Games, are a regional multi-sport event held between nations from the Arab world...
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    The Pythian Games (Greek: Πύθια;) were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held in honour of Apollo at his sanctuary in Delphi...
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    The Pan American Games (known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands...
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