top 10 sporting events in world history?
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1 World Cup\n2 Summer Olympics\n3 Super Bowl\n4 World Series\n5 NBA Champion series\n6 Winter Olympics\n7 Copa America\n8 EURO CUP\n9 Gold Cup\n10 UEFA Chanpion
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Horse racing (Sport of Kings)\nVolleyball\nBaseball\nGolf is cool
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Soccer, Track and Field sports, Football, Basketball and Tennis would be your best bet.
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Battle of Hastings\n\nGreat Fire of London\n\nGuy Fawkes
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http://www.centennialpark.com/about/features.html\n\n23 FLAG POLES\n\nIt's the focus of a vast paved plaza bordered by 23 flags honoring all the host countries of the modern Games. :-)
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1. football (soccer)\n2. volleyball\n3. ski jumping\n4. athletics \n5. swimming\nthese are the most popular, in my opinion
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It is the biggest single sport event in the world. It will be viewed by billions. FIFA world cup is for the best Football(aka Soccer to us Japanese, Americans, and Canadians)\n\nThe Brazilians are ranked #1 with the best players in the world but nothing is guaranteed.\n\n1  Brazil  \n2  Czech Republic  \n3  Netherlands  \n4  Mexico \n5  USA  tied with Spain\n5  Spain  \n7  Portugal  \n8  France\n9  Argentina\n10 England
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munich olympics\n\nthe death of the atheletes\nbut the winning of mark spitz
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All events are for men and women unless noted\n\nRunning events:\n\n100m\n200m\n400m\n800m\n1500m\n5000m\n10,000m\nMarathon\n110m hurdles\n400m hurdles\n3000m steeplechase\n\nRelays\n4x100m\n4x400m\n\nWalks\n20km\n50km\n\nField events\nHigh Jump\nlong Jump\nPole Vault\nTriple Jump\nShot put\nDiscus\nJavelin\nHammer Throw\n\nDecathalon (men)\nHepathalon (women)
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yes soccer is the number one sport worldwide, with basketball now at number 2.
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Top 10 Ranking:\nNr  Team  P  W  D  L  F  A  F-A  Pts  \n1   Brasil  87  60  14  13  191  82  +109  194  \n2   Germany / WGermany  85  50  18  17  176  106  +70  168  \n3   Italy  70  39  17  14  110  67  +43  134  \n4   Argentina  60  30  11  19  102  71  +31  101  \n5   England  50  22  15  13  68  45  +23  81  \n6   France  44  21  7  16  86  61  +25  70  \n7   Spain  45  19  12  14  71  53  +18  69  \n8   Russia / USSR  37  17  6  14  64  44  +20  57  \n9   Yugoslavia  37  16  8  13  60  46  +14  56  \n10   Sweden  42  15  11  16  71  65  +6  56
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The World Cup is the largest sporting event besides the Olympics, where 32 nations compete in the game of football (soccer according to Americans) in order to determine the world cup champion.
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History of the FIFA World Cup\n \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nNo other sporting event captures the world's imagination like the FIFA World Cup. Ever since the first tentative competition in Uruguay in 1930, FIFA's (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) flagship has constantly grown in popularity and prestige.\n\nA group of visionary French football administrators, led in the 1920s by the innovative Jules Rimet, are credited with the original idea of bringing the world's strongest national football teams together to compete for the title of World Champions. The original gold trophy bore Jules Rimet's name and was contested three times in the 1930s, before the Second World War put a 12-year stop to the competition. \n\nWhen it resumed, the FIFA World Cup rapidly advanced to its undisputed status as the greatest single sporting event of the modern world. Held since 1958 alternately in Europe and the Americas, the World Cup broke new ground with the Executive Committee's decision in May 1996 to select Korea and Japan as co-hosts for the 2002 edition. \n\nSince 1930, the 16 tournaments have seen only seven different winners. However, the FIFA World Cup has also been punctuated by dramatic upsets that have helped create footballing history - the United States defeating England in 1950, North Korea's defeat of Italy in 1966, Cameroon's emergence in the 1980s and their opening match defeat of the Argentinean cup-holders in 1990.... \n\nToday, the FIFA World Cup holds the entire global public under its spell. An accumulated audience of over 37 billion people watched the France 98 tournament, including approximately 1.3 billion for the final alone, while over 2.7 million people flocked to watch the 64 matches in the French stadium. \n\nAfter all these years and so many changes, however, the main focus of the FIFA World Cup remains the same - the glistening golden trophy, which is the embodiment of every footballer's ambition. \n\nWorld Cup Summaries\n \nYear Champion Runner-Up Result 3rd Place Host \n1930 Uruguay Argentina 4-2 United States Uruguay \n1934 Italy Czechoslovakia 2-1 (ot) Germany Italy \n1938 Italy Hungary 4-2 Brazil France \n1950 Uruguay Brazil 2-1 Sweden Brazil \n1954 West Germany Hungary 3-2 Austria Switzerland \n1958 Brazil Sweden 5-2 France Sweden \n1962 Brazil Czechoslovakia 3-1 Chile Chile \n1966 England West Germany 4-2 (ot) Portugal England \n1970 Brazil Italy 4-1 West Germany Mexico \n1974 West Germany Holland 2-1 Poland West Germany \n1978 Argentina Holland 3-1 (ot) Brazil Argentina \n1982 Italy West Germany 3-1 Poland Spain \n1986 Argentina West Germany 3-2 France Mexico \n1990 West Germany Argentina 1-0 Italy Italy \n1994 Brazil Italy 0-0 (3:2 pk) Sweden United States \n1998 France Brazil 3-0 Croatia France \n2002 Brazil Germany 2-0 Turkey Korea / Japan \n2006 - - - - Germany \n \n \n\nTeam Records\nBrazil holds the most World Cup championships with five and Italy and West Germany/Germany are tied with three World Cup titles. Hungary has tallied the most goals in a single World Cup when they scored 27 in 1954. In the 1954  World Cup Austria beat Switzerland 7-5 for the most goals (12) combined in a World Cup match. Hungary beat El Salvador in 1982, 10-1 for the highest goal differential in a World Cup match (Hungary is also the only team to score 10 or more goals in a World Cup).\n\nIndividual Records\nGerard Muller is the top scorer in World Cup history with 14 goals. Salenko of Russia scored 5 goals in a match during the 1994 World Cup. Guillermo Stabile of Argentina was the first player to ever record a hat trick (1930 World Cup). Hakan Sukur of Turkey scored the fastest goal in World Cup history in 2002 when he scored 11 seconds into the match against South Korea. Lothar Matthaus of Germany / West Germany has the most appearances by a player in the World Cup with 25. Norman Whiteside of Northern Ireland
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Attendence at those very sporting events.
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Ghana vs Chechs \n\nthat was the best game ever!!
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hands down the best sport in the world plus the atmosphere of the games is insane, Germany 2006 I'll be there baby!
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17 tournaments.\n\nThis year's World Cup in Germany will be the 18th in its history.