Sports events
by Maria Karl
1. Major events
1.1. football
1.1.1. FIFA World Cup
1.2. multi-sport event
1.2.1. Olympic Games
1.3. Championships, World Cups in almost every kind of sport
1.4. World Masters Games
1.4.1. multi sport event
1.4.2. twice as many competitors as the Summer Olympics
2. Some famous stadiums
2.1. Panatheniac Stadium
2.1.1. first Olympic Games, 1896
2.2. Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing
2.3. Fenway Park in Boston
2.4. Colosseum in Rome
3. Modern Olympic Games
3.1. more types of games
3.2. first Winter Olympics
3.3. every 4 years summer, every 4 year winter Olympics
3.4. every event in a different country
3.5. 2020 Olympics hopefully in 2021
3.6. first paralympics in 1960
3.7. the first youth games were organized in 2010
3.8. its symbol is known all around the world
3.9. mascot
3.9.1. first official in 1972, Munich
3.9.1.1. dachshund, Waldi
3.9.2. typical for the city
3.10. since 1896, 12 sports have disappeared from the schedule
4. Ancient Olympic Games
4.1. ancient Greece
4.2. participants
4.3. sports
4.4. 1896, Athen
5. European Games
5.1. 20 sports
5.2. 2015
6. Asian Games
6.1. officially Asiad
6.2. 2. largest multi-sport competition in the world
6.3. first in 1951
6.4. 36 sports
7. Commonwealth Games
7.1. it's staged between the elite athletes of countries from the Commonwealth
7.2. like the Olympic Games
7.3. based on historical linkage
7.4. "Friendly Games"
7.4.1. everyone speaks English
8. World Military Games
8.1. every 4 years
8.2. first in 1995
8.3. 23 sports in summer
8.3.1. 3 of them specific for the military