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The James Norris Trophy is an ice hockey trophy awarded annually in the National Hockey League of North America to the player who demonstrates throughout the season the greatest all-round ability as a defenceman. It was donated in 1954 by the Detroit Red Wings as a memorial to the club's former owner.
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Jass is a collection of Swiss card games. Many of the most popular card games in Switzerland, especially in the German speaking cantons, belong to the Jass group, and are played with characteristic Swiss cards, which have come to be known as Jass cards. All Jass games are played counter- clockwise. The cards are played in tricks. As usual each trick is won by the highest trump in it, or if no trump is played, by the highest card of the suit led. The winner of each trick leads to the next. In many games the player to the right of the dealer leads to the first trick, but in some games with bidding the declarer leads first.
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Javelin-throwing is a standard field event for men and women on the programme of all major athletics championships. The competition javelin weighs 800 grams for men and 600 grams for women.
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Jeu Provencal is a ball-and-target game similar to lawn bowls, crown green bowls, and petanque.
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Jiu-Kumite is free-style fighting in sport karate. Contests are always between two individuals irrespective of grade. Team contests consist of a series of individual contests, the team with the greatest winning number of members winning.
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The Jockey Club was founded in 1750 at the Star and Garter Coffee House in Pall Mall, London. Today its stewards are the central authority for the administration and control of the Turf in England.
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The Jockey Club Gold Cup is an important weight-for-age horse race in America. It is run over 3200 meters at Belmont Park in October.
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Jousting was a medieval form of combat between horsemen armed with lances. A major feature of a joust and the entire tournament in which it took place was that no one under the rank of knight could take part, thus distinguishing the contest from other military-based sports.
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Judo is a combat sport founded by Jigoro Kano and which developed primarily in Japan, but now has world-wide appeal and received Olympic recognition in 1964. Contests (shiai) are conducted by a roving referee and two judges who sit at opposite corners of a nine meter square mat.
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A judogi is a loose-fitting suit worn for combat in judo.
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A Judoka is a participant in judo.
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Jujitsu is a Japanese form of self defence.
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Juventus are an Italian Association Football club founded in Turin in 1897. The players play in black and white striped shirts and white shorts.
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