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Advantages: Exceptional quality snooker and a record number of century breaks!
Disadvantages: The game lacks big personalities which may lose audiences.

...glorious weeks of the Betfred World Snooker Championship. Unsuprisingly, the World Championship, held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, is the ultimate tournament in Snooker and worth double the ranking points of any of the other competitions. The winner will receive £250,000 prize money, but they will have to go through a marathon format of games, with the final being the best of 35 frames (aka first to 18). The 32 players that comprise the ...
...As usual this year's World Championship was an open book. The season started near the end of 2008, and the results of the major ranking events, leading up to the Worlds, were as follows: Northern Ireland Trophy: Ronnie O'Sullivan Shanghai Masters: Ricky Walden Grand Prix: John Higgins Bahrain Championship: Neil Robertson UK Championship: Shaun Murphy The Masters (non-ranking): Ronnie O'Sullivan Welsh Open: Ali Carter China Open: Peter Ebdon Apart ... Read review

Advantages: World records smashed to pieces, the sheer talent of the Athletes, 19 Golds for GB!
Disadvantages: Drug cheats, we didn't perform that well in Athletics

...team following behind. The Beijing Olympics started off with a bang with ones of the most spectacular Opening Ceremonies ever to be witnessed. The Olympics opened on the 8th of August, and boy did China put on one hell of a show. It featured everything from fantastic choreography, traditional Chinese music, and of course the now infamous miming girl who replaced the girl deemed "too unattractive" to appear in front of the world singing with that ...
...Uneven bars, and The Beijing Olympics definitely carried on the Olympics in fine tradition, despite many places in the world being unsure about the games being held in China. China did an amazing job with the purpose built venues for the games, but I do wonder what they will be used for now the games are over (and once the Paralympic games are completed too). All of the athletes have commented on how nice the Athletes village was, and despite worries ... Read review

Advantages: One of the most highly fought and exciting sporting events.
Disadvantages: Marathon format of games may only interest die-hard fans

...the game, such as seven-time World Champion Stephen Hendry, two-time World Champions John Higgins and Mark Williams and World Champions Ken Doherty and Peter Ebdon, to experience a gradual descent down the ranking list. On Saturday the 19th April 2008 - the 39th Snooker World Championship, sponsored by 888.com, commenced. This event is unquestionably the event that every Snooker player, who enters the professional game, wants to win. Taking place ...
...World Championship promised to exhibit one of the most thrilling contests it has ever produced. With the masters pitting themselves against pretenders to the throne in marathon-format games, it did not disappoint! The World Championship Thirty-two players comprise the televised stages of the 5-round World Championship. Half of these places are taken by the 'Elite top 16' players in the world who gain automatic entry into the tournament. The ... Read review

Advantages: We have the greatest show on Earth! Yay!
Disadvantages: Erm...knowing us, we'll mess it up royally...

... 27th July 2012: East London Lord Coe: In keeping with the tradition of the Opening Ceremony being a celebration of the host nation, we have enlisted a team of exceptional visionaries to bring you a spectacle that truly introduces the Games, London, England and the United Kingdom that is so totally behind our vision. (Television cameras start by focussing on several large cardboard boxes in the centre of the infield. Several children ...
...slightly befuddled but still waving London Mayor swinging around on the pole... and sweeping behind it an associated entourage of Union Jack Mini Coopers, and a final train of Reliant Robins with 'Trotters Independent Trading' sketched onto their sides. All said vehicles are then parked up in the red zone around the outside of the track, as the parade of athletes begins). (Led by Greece, each nation marches around the track as a brass band ... Read review

Advantages: More gold medals
Disadvantages: Many olympians just missed out

The Beijing Olympics was the greatest olympics for Great Britain in the last god knows how long. Especially in the swimming pool, where Dame Rebecca Adlington bought home two god medal glories. She also broke a world record for the 400m freestyle. She was not the only Britain who bought home gold. Chris Hoy bought home an astonishing 3 gold medals for his track cycling and sprint. Christine Ohuruogu won a gold medal for her efforts in the 400m ...
...were mostly for track cycling and rowing to which we can argue that the British are best. There were also 13 silver medals won again mostly to do with water sports and track cycling, although there were a few won for athletics. One of which was won by triple-jump favourite Phillips Idowu. The Great Britan team this olympics have been the best for a long time and we can definitely conclude that as there are many youngsters on this team, the 2012 ... Read review