"Welcome Home" was the motto of which worldwide sporting event in which Kriangkrai Noikoed participated?
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Kriangkrai Noikoed Kriangkrai Noikoed (Thai: เกรียงไกร น้อยเกิด ; born October 6, 1975 in Bangkok) is a Thai taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the men's welterweight category. He claimed a bronze medal in the 70-kg division at the 1998 Asian Games in his native Bangkok, retrieved three men's welterweight titles at the Southeast Asian Games (1999, 2001, and 2003), and later represented his nation Thailand at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympic Games (Modern Greek: Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004 , "Therinoí Olympiakoí Agó̱nes 2004" ), officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad and commonly known as Athens 2004, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 with the motto "Welcome Home." 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries. There were 301 medal events in 28 different sports. Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance. 2004 also marked the return of the games to the city where they began.
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Songkran Songkran is a term derived from the Sanskrit word, "saṅkrānti " (or, more specifically, "meṣa saṅkrānti ") and used to refer to the traditional Lunar New Year celebrated in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, parts of northeast India, parts of Vietnam and Xishuangbanna, China. It begins when the sun transits the constellation of Aries, the first astrological sign in the Zodiac, as reckoned by sidereal astrology. It is related to the equivalent Hindu calendar-based New Year festivals in most parts of South Asia which are collectively referred to as "Mesha Sankranti".
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Afghanistan at the 2002 Asian Games Afghanistan participated in the 2002 Asian Games held in Busan, South Korea, from September 29 to October 14, 2002. This marked Afghanistan's return to international sporting events after the fall of the Taliban regime. The Afghan delegation consisted of 12 officials (11 men and one woman) and 44 competitors (40 men and four women) participating in seven different sports. The Afghanistan national football team played its first international match since the 1984 AFC Asian Cup qualification phase. An English teacher from Kabul, Roia Zamani, won a bronze medal in the 72 kg middleweight class of taekwondo without winning a single match. Zamani was the only medalist from the Afghan side and the first Afghan medalist in 20 years. None of the remaining athletes advanced past the qualifying stages, and as such did not win any medals.
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1994 Asian Games medal table The 1994 Asian Games (also known as the XII Asiad), was a multi-sport event held in Hiroshima, Japan from 2 to 16 October 1994. They were the first Asian Games to be held in a non-capital city. The main theme of this edition was to promote peace and harmony among Asian nations. It was emphasized by the host because the venue was the site of the first atomic bomb attack in 1945. A total of 6,828 athletes from 42 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in these games, competing in 34 sports. Baseball, Karate, Modern Pentathlon and Soft tennis were included for the first time. This medal table ranks the participating NOCs by the number of gold medals won by their athletes.
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Sport in Greece Greece has risen to prominence in a number of sporting areas in recent decades. Football in particular has seen a rapid transformation, with the Greek national football team winning the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship. Many Greek athletes have also achieved significant success and have won world and olympic titles in numerous sports during the years, such as basketball, wrestling, water polo, athletics, weightlifting, with many of them becoming international stars inside their sports. The successful organisation of the Athens 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games led also to the further development of many sports and has led to the creation of many world class sport venues all over Greece and especially in Athens. Greek athletes have won a total 146 medals for Greece in 15 different Olympic sports at the Summer Olympic Games, including the Intercalated Games, an achievement which makes Greece one of the top nations globally, in the world's rankings of medals per capital.
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Equestrian at the 1982 Asian Games Equestrian was contested at the 1982 Asian Games at the Harbaksh Stadium, New Delhi, India on November 1982. The host nation India topped the medal table with three gold medals. Kuwait finished second by winning all three medals of the individual jumping event.
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2004 South Asian Games The 2004 South Asian Games(or 9th SAF Games) were held in Islamabad, Pakistan in 2004. Originally scheduled for 2001, these games were postponed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the United States in which the US later declared Pakistan a Major non-NATO ally. The slogan for these Games is "Rising Above".
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Football at the 2014 Asian Games Football at the 2014 Asian Games was held in Incheon, South Korea from September 14 to October 3, 2014. The opening match was played 5 days prior to the opening ceremony. In this tournament, 29 teams are playing in the men's competition, and 11 teams are participating in the women's competition.
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List of South Asian Games records in athletics The South Asian Games is a biennial multi-sport event which began in 1984. Athletics has been one of the sports held at the Games since the inaugural edition. Records set by athletes who are representing one of the South Asian Sports Council's member states.
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Thailand national football team The Thailand national football team (Thai: ฟุตบอลทีมชาติไทย , rtgs: "futbon thim chat thai" ,  ] ) represents Thailand in international men's association football. Officially nicknamed the War Elephants, the team is controlled by the governing body for football in Thailand, Football Association of Thailand (FAT), which is currently a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).
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2009 Maccabiah Games The 2009 Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: המכביה ה-18 ישראל תשס"ט‎ ‎ ). the 18th incarnation of the Maccabiah Games, were held in July 2009. According to the organizing committee these were the largest games held yet. These Games were the world's fifth-largest sporting event, behind the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, World Police and Fire Games, and Universiade. On the 13th of July, more than 6,000 Jewish athletes from all over the world joined Team Israel's 3,000 participants at the Ramat Gan Stadium in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv District, Israel, for the opening ceremony.
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National Games of Pakistan The National Games of Pakistan is a multi-sport event held in Pakistan. It comprises various disciplines in which sportsmen from the different teams participate against each other. The games are organized by Pakistan Sports Board, Pakistan Olympic Association and the host province.First Edition of Quaid-e-Azam Inter Provincial Youth Games was already take place in Islamabad
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India at the Asian Games India is a member of the South Asian Zone of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), and has participated in the Asian Games since their inception in 1951. The Indian Olympic Association, established in 1927, and recognised in the same year by the International Olympic Committee, is the National Olympic Committee for India.
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Vision 1 Sports Vision 1 (used to be known as Vision Sports), is the Indovision's "in-house channel". The regime began on September 5, 2005. At the beginning of the establishment, Vision1 which can be seen through the channel 1 Indovision is only broadcast soccer games from around the world to live.
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2012 Thailand National Games The 41st Thailand National Games (Thai:การแข่งขันกีฬาแห่งชาติ ครั้งที่ 41 "เชียงใหม่เกมส์") also known (2012 National Games, Chiang Mai Games) were held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 5 to 19 December 2013. Represented were 43 sports and 77 disciplines. The games were held in 700th Anniversary Stadium Sport Center, etc. and Chiang Mai hosted 1995 Southeast Asian Games.
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India at the 2014 Asian Games India competed at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, from 19 September to 4 October 2014. After 16 years India won the Gold medal in Asian Games men's hockey tournament, and consequently earned a direct berth to the 2016 Summer Olympics hockey tournament.
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National Games of Nepal The National Games of Nepal is a sporting event held in Nepal.
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Indian Ocean Island Games The Indian Ocean Island Games (French: "Jeux des îles de l'océan Indien" ) is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from Indian Ocean island nations. The Games was created by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1977 and currently gather the island nations and territories of Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte, Réunion and the Maldives. The number of athletes who participate has increased over the years, it went from 1000 athletes in 1979 to over 1500 participants in 2003 and 2007.
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Ancient Olympic Games The Olympic Games was originally meant as a festival, or celebration of/for Zeus; later, events such as a footrace, a javelin contest, and wrestling matches were added. The Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: Ὀλύμπια "Olympia" "the Olympics" also Ancient Greek: Ὀλυμπιάς "Olympias" "the Olympiad") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC. They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in 393 AD as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the State religion of Rome. The games were held every four years, or "olympiad", which became a unit of time in historical chronologies.
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2013 Thailand National Games The 42nd Thailand National Games (Thai:การแข่งขันกีฬาแห่งชาติ ครั้งที่ 42 "สุพรรณบุรีเกมส์") also known (2013 National Games,Suphan Buri Games) held in Suphan Buri, Thailand during 5 to 15 January 2014,Representing were 44 sports and 77 disciplines. This games held in Suphan Buri Provincial Sport Center,Suphan Buri Sport School Stadium,etc. and Nakhon Ratchasima hosted 1994 Thailand National Games and 2006 Thailand National Games
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Elbasan Arena Elbasan Arena (Albanian: "Elbasan Arena" , formerly known as Ruzhdi Bizhuta) is a multi-purpose stadium in Elbasan, Albania. The stadium was completed in 1967 and has been the home ground of KF Elbasani ever since. The stadium was under reconstruction and was officially inaugurated on October 8, 2014 in time for the match against Denmark, valid for the qualifiers of UEFA Euro 2016, with total capacity of 12,800, making it the 3rd largest in Albania, after the Qemal Stafa Stadium in Tirana, and Loro Boriçi Stadium in Shkodër.