Maxime Marquette
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The longest chess game in history lasted more than 20 hours
In 1989, in Belgrade, two Yugoslav grandmasters, Ivan Nikolić and Goran Arsović, faced off in a game of chess that would go
How Cambridge students invented the rules of modern football
In 1863, students at the University of Cambridge, in England, drafted one of the very first written sets of rules for association
This cricket match lasted 12 days without either team winning
In March 1939, in Durban, South Africa, England and South Africa played an international cricket match that would go down in history
Live pigeon shooting, the most controversial Olympic event in history
At the Paris Olympic Games held in 1900, the official program included an event that would seem utterly inconceivable in today's sporting
The wild Cooper's Hill cheese race that injures its participants every year
Every year, in Gloucestershire, England, hundreds of people gather at the top of Cooper's Hill to take part in one of the
Modern tennis descends from a handball game born in French monasteries
Before becoming one of the most popular sports in the world, tennis had a little-known prehistory, woven through the corridors and cloisters
The youngest Olympic champion in history was just 10 years old
In April 1896, the very first edition of the modern Olympic Games took place in Athens, Greece, in an atmosphere that was
Wrestling, the oldest documented sport in human history
Did you know that wrestling, according to the archaeological evidence available, is the oldest documented sport in the whole of human history,
The legend of the runner who died after announcing victory at Marathon
Did you know that the marathon event, now run all over the world, takes its name and its origin from an ancient