Fordyce told BBC Spotlight they duo entered the World Games with little expectation of success.
In 2010, at 16, she became the first Englishwoman to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games, taking home the bronze, and added silver at the World Youth Games the following year before hitting the big stage at London 2012.
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As part of the project for the World Student Games, the council built large sporting facilities in Sheffield to host events, including Don Valley Stadium, Ponds Forge, Sheffield Arena and Hillsborough Leisure Centre.
She called for an end to the protest and said the damage must be countered by continuing to build on events such as the UK City of Culture, the World Fire Games and the G8 summit.
"The 2012 Paralympics will live long in the memory as the Games where South Africa and the world learnt that these Games were not the fun games nor the 'shame' games, " wrote The Star.
One of the questions that came up in Reddit comments for the Games We Play video was if these games are played in countries other than the US, and sure enough a couple responses from different parts of the world showed the games seem to be fairly universal.
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Ms Davidson-Olley, a shop sales advisor, regularly takes part in the World Transplant Games and has spent her life campaigning to get more people on the organ donor list.
The World Alternative Games, starting 17 August in Llanwrtyd Wells, will take place at almost the same exact time as the 2012 Olympic Games, and will feature events such as wife-carrying and rock-paper-scissors.
Some of it is just going to be comedy that anchors in the world of games.
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Fox plans to air a spot for the show, which starts in January, during the World Series games.
Meanwhile, Anna Boyle was part of the Irish 4x100m relay team which claimed bronze at the World University Games.
The venue, built in 1990 and host of the World Student Games in 1991, currently seats 25, 000 so would need extending.
He had previously won a gold medal in football for the Isle of Man at the World Summer Games in Athens.
In Hall 8, fathers and sons were able to explore the world of games together under trained guidance in the Gamescom campus.
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When any website gets screenshots, videos or details before anyone else, the resulting traffic spike is more than anything else the world of games journalism has to offer.
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My time in the community as both a player and staff member, has given me amazing opportunities to work with organizations such as Major League Gaming and the World Cyber Games.
Had Great Britain ended up in the promotional league competitions this year, it would have been a setback in terms of building towards the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky during September and October, as well as London 2012.
Consider whether the PR staff for Hormel's bacon brands could better spend their time creating an online, regional and national event vehicle like the World Bacon Games--where they hand out medals made of delicious bacon--as opposed to pleading with food reporters to write glowing reviews about their products.
Peter Molyneux is one of the most perplexing characters in the games world.
Even though we won the two preparation games for the World Cup, they were just more or less friendly games.
After all, the current World Cyber Games champion is from The Netherlands.
As for the World Championships, the games missed this weekend are going to be played this week sometime ahead of the finals, though no specifics of dates and times have been given yet.
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According to the report, Yahoo is sending 25 people from around the world to cover the Summer Games in London.
The show also included the world premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer, introduced by one of its stars, Liam Hemsworth.
During the four years that Kasparov and I traveled the world talking masterpiece games, war, love, novels, everything else under the sun, while I was researching his biography, we became friends.
And with the launch of Sony's PlayStation Home -- an online world for the games console -- this autumn, it seems the big players in the entertainment world are banking on virtual realms being part of the future, too.
For despite winning the 1995 FIFA World Youth Cup and the 2008 Olympic Games with Argentina, Messi has yet to go past the quarterfinals of the World Cup -- and many commentators believe he needs to win that trophy if he is to lay claim to being the greatest footballer the world has ever seen.
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Spain dominated both teams in the final two games of the World Cup, but won each match 1-0.
For starters, it is Friday afternoon, where New York is bracing for some sort of MegaStorm, while out here in the Bay Area everyone is busily gloating about the Giants taking the first two games of the World Series from the Tigers.
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