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Some of the sports that were on the program of the World Games eventually made it as Olympic sports (such as triathlon) or have been Olympic sports in the past (like tug of war). Participation in past World Games is included in the evaluation criteria used to select new Olympic sports adopted by the IOC on August 12, 2004. However, with the current position of the IOC to limit the Olympic Games to 10,000 participants, it is unlikely than many of the World Games sports will be elevated to the Olympic sports.

Some of the sports that are currently held at the World Games are orienteering, body building, powerlifting, fin swimming , squash, netball, water skiing, and casting . The sports that are included in the World Games are based on the facilities available in the host city, no new facilities may be constructed for the games. Typically, between 25 and 32 sports are contested at any particular World Games.

1 Sites and years of the World Games

• 1981: Santa Clara, CaliforniaSanta Clara founded in 1852, is a city located in Santa Clara County, in the U. state of California. The city is the site of Mission Santa Clara de Asis, on the campus of Santa Clara University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Ca, United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in
• 19851985 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January events January 1 Creation of the Internet's Domain Name System. January 17 British Telecom annouces they are going to abolish the famous red telephone boxes. January 23 A debate in the House of Lor: LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri, United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly
• 19891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra: KarlsruheKarlsruhe (population 282,595 in December 2003) is a city of Germany, in the Baden-Wurttemberg Bundesland, located near the French-German border. Geography The altitude above sea level of the city's area is between 100 m (on the westerly edge, toward the, West GermanyWest Germany was the informal but almost universally used name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include the eastern part of Germany. Since the German reunification of 1990, the F
• 1993: The Hague, Netherlands
• 1997: Lahti, Finland
• 2001: Akita, Japan
• 2005: Duisburg, Germany
• 2009: Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)