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Relay race

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A relay race is a racing competition where members of a team take turns completing parts of racecourse or performing a certain action. [1]

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Anchor leg

The anchor leg is the final position in a relay race.

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Backstroke

Backstroke is one of the four swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back.

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Biathlon

The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

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Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Mixed relay

The mixed relay competition of the Sochi 2014 Olympics was held at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex on 19 February 2014.

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Biathlon World Championships 2005

The 40th Biathlon World Championships were held in 2005 for the third time in Hochfilzen, Austria from 4 to 13 March.

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Bislett Stadium

Bislett Stadium (Bislett stadion) is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway.

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Breaststroke

Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate.

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Butterfly stroke

The butterfly (colloquially shortened to the fly) is a swimming stroke swum on the chest, with both arms moving symmetrically, accompanied by the butterfly kick (also known as the "dolphin kick").

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Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance.

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Distance medley relay

The distance medley relay (DMR) is an athletic event in which four athletes compete as part of a relay.

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Ekiden

is a long-distance running relay race, typically held on roads.

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False start

In sports, a false start is a movement by a participant before (or in some cases after) being signaled or otherwise permitted by the rules to start.

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FINA

FINA or Fédération internationale de natation (English: International Swimming Federation) is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competition in water sports.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women.

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Freestyle swimming

Freestyle is a category of swimming competition, defined by the rules of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), in which competitors are subject to few limited restrictions on their swimming stroke.

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Front crawl

The front crawl or forward crawl, also known as the Australian crawl or American crawl, is a swimming stroke usually regarded as the fastest of the four front primary strokes.

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IAAF World Road Relay Championships

The IAAF World Road Relay Championships was a biennial international athletics competition in long-distance relay running.

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Ice skating

Ice skating is the act of motion by wearer of the ice skates to propel the participant across a sheet of ice.

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ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championships

The ITU Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championships, formerly the ITU Triathlon Team World Championships, is an annual team triathlon competition organized by the International Triathlon Union (ITU).

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Jukola relay

The Jukola Relay is an orienteering relay race held annually in Finland since 1949.

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Ladder logic

Ladder logic was originally a written method to document the design and construction of relay racks as used in manufacturing and process control.

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Madison (cycling)

The madison is a relay race event in track cycling, named after the first Madison Square Garden in New York, and known as the "American race" in French (course à l'américaine) and in Italian and Spanish as Americana.

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Medley

Medley or Medleys may refer to.

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Medley swimming

Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles — butterfly stroke, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle — into one race.

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Nagasaki

() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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Norwegians

Norwegians (nordmenn) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Norway.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Orienteering

Orienteering is a group of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Penn Relays

The Penn Relays (also Penn Relays Carnival) is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States, hosted annually since April 21, 1895 by the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

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Race track

A race track (or "racetrack", "racing track" or "racing circuit") is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing).

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Racing

In sport, racing is a competition of speed, against an objective criterion, usually a clock or to a specific point.

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Round-Kyūshū Ekiden

The Prince Takamatsu Cup Nishinippon Round-Kyūshū Ekiden (九州一周駅伝 Kyūshū isshū ekiden) is a running race in Japan held annually from 1951 to 2013.

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Running

Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot.

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Salo, Finland

Salo is a town and municipality of Finland.

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Six-day racing

A six or six-day is a track cycling race that lasts six days.

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Sport of athletics

Athletics is a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

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Sprint (running)

Sprinting is running over a short distance in a limited period of time.

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Sprint medley relay

The sprint medley relay (SMR) is a track and field event in which teams of four athletes compete over sprinting distances as part of a relay race.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Strategy

Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Swedish relay

Swedish relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of ones arms and legs to move the body through water.

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Tiomila

Tiomila or 10-mila is an orienteering race held annually in Sweden since 1945, usually in late April or early May.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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Track cycling

Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes (but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow) using track bicycles.

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Triathlon

A triathlon is a multiple-stage competition involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance disciplines.

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Triathlon at the Youth Olympic Games

Triathlon has been included in the Summer Youth Olympics since their inauguration.

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Triple Threat (game show)

Triple Threat is an American television game show that pitted two teams of three generations against each other to test their knowledge of past and present television, movies and music.

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UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling.

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2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games (Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004), officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad and commonly known as Athens 2004, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries.

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2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

The 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) were held in Doha, Qatar on 3–7 December 2014.

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2015 World Aquatics Championships

The 16th FINA World Championships (Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015, 2015 елгы Су спорт төрләре буенча дөнья чемпионаты), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015.

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2017 IAAF World Cross Country Championships

The 2017 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was hosted in the city of Kampala, Uganda's capital.

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2017 IAAF World Relays

The 2017 IAAF World Relays is the third edition of the biennial, global track and field relay competition between nations.

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2019 World Championships in Athletics

The seventeenth edition of the IAAF World Championships is scheduled to be held between 28 September and 6 October 2019 in Doha, Qatar at the renovated multi-purpose Khalifa International Stadium.

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2020 Summer Olympics

The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Tokyo 2020, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020.

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4 × 100 metres relay

The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each.

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4 × 400 metres relay

The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap.

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400 metres

The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a sprinting event in track and field competitions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay_race

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