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Kauhajoki ( literally  Scoop River ) is a town and municipality of ___MASK70___ . The city is unilingually Finnish . The long jump ( historically called the broad jump ) is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed , strength , and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point . Along with the triple jump , the two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the " horizontal jumps ". This event has a history in the Ancient Olympic Games and has been a modern Olympic event for men since the first Olympics in 1896 and for women since 1948 . A river is a natural flowing watercourse , usually freshwater , flowing towards an ocean , sea , lake or another river . In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water . Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream , creek , brook , rivulet , and rill . There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features , although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size . Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location ; examples are " run " in some parts of the United States , " burn " in ___MASK3___ and northeast ___MASK81___ , and " beck " in northern ___MASK81___ . Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek , but not always : the language is vague . Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running , jumping , and throwing . The name is derived from the sport ' s typical venue : a stadium with an oval running track enclosing a grass field where the throwing and jumping events take place . Track and field is categorised under the umbrella sport of athletics , which also includes road running , cross country running , and race walking . Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open - air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass . Sometimes the runners are referred to as " harriers " ( dogs ). The course , typically long , may include surfaces of grass , and ___MASK17___ , pass through woodlands and open country , and include hills , flat ground and sometimes gravel road . It is both an individual and a team sport ; runners are judged on individual times and teams by a points - scoring method . Both men and women of all ages compete in cross country , which usually takes place during autumn and winter , and can include weather conditions of rain , sleet , snow or hail , and a wide range of temperatures . The Olympic Games (" Olympia ", " the Olympics " also " the Olympiad ") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city - states and one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient ___MASK88___ . 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 ___MASK88___ 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 . Salon - de - Provence is a commune in the Bouches - du - Rhône department in southern ___MASK83___ . It is the location of an important air base . Heli Koivula Kruger ( née Heli Maarit Koivula ; born 27 June 1975 ) is a Finnish former track and field athlete . She was born in Kauhajoki and represented Kauhajoen Karhu throughout her career . She currently lives in Vaasa . Her main athletic events were the triple jump and the long jump . She won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics in triple jump , with a wind assisted result of 14 . 83 metres . She holds the current Finnish record in triple jump , clearing 14 . 39 metres ( 2003 ) . She is married to discus thrower Frantz Kruger . Frantz Kruger ( born 22 May 1975 in Kempton Park , ___MASK18___ ) is a South African born Finnish discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 2000 . He is also a double African champion . His personal best throw of 70 . 32 metres , achieved in May 2002 in Salon - de - Provence , is the current African record . Kauhajoen Karhu is a Finnish basketball team from Kauhajoki . The team plays in Korisliiga , the highest tier of Finnish basketball . ___MASK18___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK18___ ( RSA ), is the southernmost country in Africa . It is bounded on the south by of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans , on the north by the neighbouring countries of ___MASK72___ , Botswana and ___MASK8___ , and on the east and northeast by Mozambique and Swaziland , and surrounding the kingdom of Lesotho . ___MASK18___ is the 25th - largest country in the world by land area , and with close to 56 million people , is the world ' s 24th - most populous nation . It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere . It is the only country that borders both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean . About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub - Saharan African ancestry , divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different Bantu languages , nine of which have official status . The remaining population consists of Africa ' s largest communities of European ( white ), Asian ( Indian ), and multiracial ( coloured ) ancestry . The Korisliiga is the top league of professional basketball in ___MASK70___ , comprising the top 11 teams of the country . In current format each team plays all other teams four times in the regular season , twice at home and twice away , for a total of 40 games . The top eight teams continue to the Playoffs , where all instances are in a " Best - of - five " format . Pantterit owns the record for most titles ; with 14 . The top league for women is Naisten Korisliiga . ___MASK70___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK70___ , is a sovereign state in Northern Europe . A peninsula with the Gulf of ___MASK70___ to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west , the country has land borders with Sweden to the northwest , Norway to the north , and Russia to the east . Estonia is south of the country across the Gulf of ___MASK70___ . ___MASK70___ is a Nordic country situated in the geographical region of Fennoscandia , which also includes Scandinavia . ___MASK70___ ' s population is 5 . 5 million ( 2014 ), staying roughly on the same level over the past two decades . The majority of the population is concentrated in the southern region . In terms of area , it is the eighth largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union .