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Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2007) | A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities - usually national teams or individuals representing their nation - compete for the title of world champion. A world cup is generally considered the premier competition in its sport, with the victor attaining the highest honour in that sport and able to lay claim to the title of their sport's best. However, in some sports the Olympic title carries at least as much prestige. World Cup is used to refer to a competition (typically sporting) where teams or individuals compete while representing their nations. ...
The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
There are a number of notable world cups in popular sports, but it is the FIFA World Cup (a football tournament, first held in 1930) that is widely known simply as 'the World Cup'.[1] For the club competition, see FIFA Club World Cup. ...
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Some sport governing bodies prefer the title world championship or a related term; some even organise both a world cup and a world championship with different rules. Usually, such competitions take one of two forms, a short periodic competition or a year-long series of meetings. A sport governing body comes in several forms. ...
A World Championship is any contest to determine the best in the world in a particular field. ...
Periodic format A periodic world cup or world championship usually takes the form of a knockout tournament (possibly with an initial group stage). This is held over a number of days or weeks, with the entrants eventually being whittled down to two, and the tournament culminating in a world cup final. The winner(s) take the title of World Champion(s) and hold it until the next time the event is held (usually one, two, or four years later). This format is most common in team sports, as with the FIFA (football) World Cup or the ICC (cricket) World Cup A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout tournament, is a type of tournament where the loser of each match is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event. ...
Womens Australian rules football is a team sport. ...
Season-long format A contrasting concept, popular in individual sports, is a year-long competition with several meetings over its course. In this format, victory at an individual meeting earns a number of points, and, usually, a number of positions below also score points inversely related to their position. Contestants accumulate a number of points over the course of the year (often "season") and their cumulative total after all meetings have been concluded determines the world champion.
See also The following is a list of world cups and world championships, sporting events which use one of these two names, or one with a similar meaning. ...
The following is a list of world champion nations in team sports played on an international basis, with the current world champions. ...
The term world series is used for the following competitions: The World Series in Major League Baseball The World Series of Poker The World Series of Beer Pong [1] In cricket: World Series Cricket, the professional cricket competition from 1977 to 1979 The World Series Cup, currently known as the...
References - ^ The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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