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International Sports
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Event
FIFA World Cup: The most prestigious international competition of the world’s most popular sport, the soccer World Cup is by far the biggest international sports event. Held every four years, no competition stirs national pride around the world the way the World Cup does. The only knock on the World Cup is the puny size of the coveted World Cup trophy, which stands at a little over a foot tall. The next World Cup will be held in Qatar in 2022.
Summer Olympics: The origins of the Summer Olympic Games date back to the Ancient Olympic Games in 776 B.C. The modern Olympics, which began again in Athens in 1896, have grown into a full-blown international spectacle. Next year’s historic Olympics will take place in Tokyo.
Cricket World Cup: Cricket is the world’s second most popular sport—by one estimate, 3 billion people around the world watch or play cricket (just not in the United States). The Cricket World Cup is the premier international cricket competition, contested every four years. The next Cricket World Cup will be held in India in 2021.
Rugby World Cup: One of the largest sporting competitions in the world, the Rugby World Cup, pits the top national rugby union teams against one another every four years. France will play host to the next Rugby World Cup in 2023.
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History
The first international sport was held in 1844 where a cricket match between teams from the United States and Canada was the first international sporting event in the modern world, predating the revival of the Olympic Games by more than 50 years.
Definition
The concept of international sport refers to sport when the participants represent at least two countries. The most well-known international sports event is the Olympic Games. Other examples include the FIFA World Cup and the Paralympic Games.