Olympic tennis is a knockout competition-one loss and you're out.

奥运会网球赛采用的是淘汰制，输一轮就彻底被淘汰。

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With each of the 32 teams split into eight mini-leagues, the competition to qualify for the knockout stages is fierce.

世界杯的32支队伍被分成8个小组，每个小组晋级淘汰赛的竞争都很激烈。

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They are then matched up against players in the same round of the competition and progress as they would normally through the group stage and knockout rounds.

然后它们匹配在对球员的竞争和进步，因为他们通常通过小组赛和淘汰赛同一轮。

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Le Page used arm-locks to great effect winning five out of his six fights with them in the knockout competition and won the final in under ten seconds.

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The other reason the league is pre-eminent is that folks have cottoned on to the fact that luck plays a huge part in the FA Cup, like any knockout competition.

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In the English FA Cup , arguably the most famous domestic knockout competition in world club football, Premier League giant Liverpool was given a scare by fifth tier side Mansfield.

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