High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 was held in October and November 2008. The meet scheduling matched that of the 2007 series, with all meets held short course metres (25 m) format.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 AFC Cup was the 5th edition of the AFC Cup, playing between clubs from nations who are members of the Asian Football Confederation.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008–09 Ski Jumping World Cup was the 30th World Cup season in history. It began on 29 November 2008 at the Rukatunturi ski jumping hill in Kuusamo, Finland, and finished on 22 March 2009 at Planica, Slovenia.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 20th annual World Music Awards was held on 9 November, 2008 in Monaco. Awards are given based on worldwide sales figures for that year. The ceremony was hosted by actor Jesse Metcalfe and singer Michelle Williams.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships were held in Eindhoven, Netherlands, from 13–24 March 2008. They were the European championships for swimming (50 m), diving and synchronised swimming for 2008. Two new events were contested: the 800 m freestyle men and the 1500 m freestyle women. This is the first time that the men`s and women`s swimming programs are identical.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 J. League Division 2 season is the 37th season of the second-tier club football in Japan and the 10th season since the establishment of J2 League. The season started on March 8 and ended on December 6.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 season is the 99th season in Sport Club Internacional`s existence, and their 38th in the Campeonato Brasileiro, having never been relegated from the top division.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Canada`s 2008 annual commercial seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and around Newfoundland, Quebec and Nova Scotia began on March 28. The hunting season lasts from mid-November to mid-May, but the hunt mainly occurs in March and April. Canada`s seal hunt is the world`s largest hunt for marine mammals.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, the thirteenth Paralympics, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to September 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The CAF Confederation Cup 2008 schedule began with the preliminary round (home-and away ties) in mid February. The competition concluded on November 22 with CS Sfaxien winning the title.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 Victorian Football League (VFL) was a semi-professional Australian Rules Football competition featuring thirteen teams from Victoria and one team from Tasmania.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This page details the process of qualifying for the 2008 African Cup of Nations. 48 African nations, including hosts Ghana, entered the competition. Ghana automatically qualified as host country.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 United States Olympic Trials (swimming) were held from June 29 to July 6 at the CenturyLink Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were the World Junior Figure Skating Championships for the 2007/2008 season. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", they are an annual figure skating competition in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion. The event is open to figure skaters from ISU member nations who have reached the age of 13 by July 1 of the previous year, but have not yet turned 19. The upper age limit for men competing in pairs and dance is 21. Skaters compete in four disciplines: men`s singles, ladies singles, pairs, and ice dance.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was a very active hurricane season with sixteen named storms formed, including eight that became hurricanes and five that became major hurricanes. The season officially started on June 1 and ended on November 30. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. However, the formation of Tropical Storm Arthur caused the season to start two days early. This season is the third most costly on record, behind only the 2004 and 2005 seasons, with over $47.5 billion in damage (2008 USD). It was the fourth busiest year since 1944 and the only year on record in which a major hurricane existed in every...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 IRB Junior World Championship was the first annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams. All players who were twenty years of age or under on 1 January 2008 were eligible for selection.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men 2008 was the final qualifying tournament for the 2008 Olympic men`s basketball tournament. Organized by FIBA, it took place from 14–20 July 2008 at the OAKA Indoor Sports Arena, in Athens, Greece. The draw for the tournament was held on 31 January 2008 at the Divani Caravel hotel in Athens.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from March 24 until August 8, 2008, prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, with the theme of "one world, one dream". Plans for the relay were announced on April 26, 2007, in Beijing, China. The relay, also called by the organizers as the "Journey of Harmony", lasted 129 days and carried the torch 137,000 km (85,000 mi) – the longest distance of any Olympic torch relay since the tradition was started ahead of the 1936 Summer Olympics.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2008 CONCACAF Champions` Cup was the 43rd edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions` Cup. It was the final edition under this name and format, being replaced by the CONCACAF Champions League starting from the 2008–09 season.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The CAF Champions League 2008 was the 12th running of the CAF Champions League competition. Al-Ahly of Egypt achieved an unprecented 6th Champions League cup by winning 4-2 on aggregate against Cotonsport Garoua of Cameroon .
