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Transplant Games
The World Transplant Games (WTG) are an international multi-sport event, occurring every two years, organized by the World Transplant Games Federation (WTGF). The Games promote amateur sport amongst organ transplant recipients, living donors and donor families. Summer Games Winter Games Sports Summer: # Athletics # Athletics ( road race) # Swimming # Cycling # Kayak # Badminton # Table tennis # Paddle tennis # Tennis # Squash # Triathlon # Bowling # Darts # Golf # Lawn bowls # Pétanque # Tejo # 3x3 basketball # Volleyball Winter: # Biathlon # Curling # Snowboarding # Skiing * Slalom * Giant Slalom * Super Giant Slalom * Parallel Slalom * Nicholas Cup : Slalom Race for Children (A Ski Event for Transplanted Children) SPORTS – DONORS (including deceased donor families and living donors) • Road Race • 50m Freestyle • Athletics: 100m sprint, ball throw, long jump worldtransplantgames.org/sports/ worldtransplantgames.org/sports-rules/ A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multi-sport Event
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance was the Olympic Games, first held in modern times in 1896 in Athens, Greece and inspired by the Ancient Olympic Games, one of a number of such events held in antiquity. Most modern multi-sports events have the same basic structure. Games are held over the course of several days in and around a "host city", which changes for each competition. Countries send national teams to each competition, consisting of individual athletes and teams that compete in a wide variety of sports. Athletes or teams are awarded gold, silver or bronze medals for first, second and third place respectively. Each game is generally held every four years, though some are annual competitions. History The Ancient Olympic Games, first held in 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
