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Beggar my neighbour
Beggar my neighbour, also Strip Jack Naked or Beat Your Neighbour Out Of Doors, is a no-skill British children's card game; aces and court cards force forfeits, and a 2024 paper proved a non-terminating game exists.
Begoña Vía Dufresne
Begoña Vía Dufresne (Begoña Vía Dufresne Pereña), Spanish sailor born 1971 in Barcelona, won 470 gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics with Theresa Zabell after three straight world titles; sister of medalist Natalia Vía Dufresne.
Behaviour Interactive
Behaviour Interactive, formerly Artificial Mind & Movement (A2M), is a Canadian video game studio founded in Montreal in 1992, best known as the creator of Dead by Daylight.
Behdad Salimi
Behdad Salimikordasiabi (بهداد سلیمی کردآسیابی), born 1989, Iranian super heavyweight weightlifter; 2012 Olympic +105 kg gold (455 kg), two world titles, three Asian Games golds, snatch world records of 214 and 216 kg; retired 2018.
Behemoth (video game)
Skydance's Behemoth is a 2024 single-player VR action-adventure by Skydance Games; Wren the Hunter hunts four Behemoths across the Forsaken Lands with physics-based melee combat, on Quest, PS VR2, Steam, and Rift.
Beijing Ducks
The Beijing Ducks, also known as the Beijing Shougang Ducks, are a Chinese basketball team in the CBA, one of its eight founding teams in 1995 and winner of three championships in 2012, 2014, and 2015.
Beijing Goldenport
Beijing Goldenport (Goldenport Motor Park, 北京金港国际赛车场) is a permanent FIA Grade 3 racing circuit in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Opened December 2001, designed by Michael McDonough; 2.391 km, 12 turns; hosted FIA GT1 2011 and WTCC 2014.
Beijing Guoan F.C. (北京国安足球俱乐部)
Beijing Guoan F.C. (北京国安足球俱乐部), also Beijing Sinobo Guoan, is a Chinese Super League football club founded in 1992 by CITIC Guoan and Beijing municipal bodies; 2009 CSL champions, five-time CFA Cup winners, based at the rebuilt Workers' Stadium, wholly owned by Sinobo Group since 2021.
Beijing National Stadium
Beijing National Stadium (国家体育场), known as the Bird's Nest, is a 91,000-seat stadium in Beijing's Olympic Green and the main venue of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Beira mar
SC Beira-Mar (Sport Clube Beira-Mar), Portuguese multi-sport club from Aveiro founded 1 January 1922; won the 1998/99 Taça de Portugal, played 27 top-flight seasons, now in Campeonato de Portugal after 2017 insolvency.
Beitar Jerusalem F.C. (מועדון כדורגל בית"ר ירושלים)
Beitar Jerusalem F.C. (בית"ר ירושלים), also briefly Beitar Trump Jerusalem, is an Israeli Premier League club founded 1936, playing at Teddy Stadium, with six championships and the far-right La Familia ultras.
Bekhruz Karimov
Bekhruz Karimov (Беҳруз Каримов), born 2007, Uzbek right-back; played for Surkhon Termez, joined FC Lugano in 2026 for €450k, and appeared for Uzbekistan at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Bekzat Almakhan (Бекзат Алмахан)
Bekzat Almakhan (Бекзат Алмахан), "The Turan Warrior", Kazakh bantamweight MMA fighter born 1997; 12-4 record with 10 knockouts, karate black belt, Zhekpe Zhek world champion; UFC 1-3, beat Brad Katona at UFC 315, lost to Nurmagomedov, Topuria, Matsumoto.
Bekzat Sattarkhanov
Bekzat Sattarkhanov (Бекзат·Seyilkhanov Sattarkhanov) was a Kazakh amateur boxer who won gold in the men's featherweight at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, dying in a car accident just three months later.
Bela
Bela, also known as Clobyosh, Klabberjass, or Kalabrias, is a Scottish trick-taking card game played with a 32-card pack, in which one player names trumps and must outscore the opponent or lose all their points.
Béla Károlyi
Béla Károlyi (1942–2024) was a Romanian-born American gymnastics coach who trained Nadia Comăneci, Mary Lou Retton, and Kerri Strug to Olympic gold and, with his wife Márta, built the United States' semi-centralized training system.
Belal Muhammad
Belal Muhammad, "Remember the Name", American UFC welterweight from Chicago; won the title from Leon Edwards at UFC 304 (July 2024), lost it to Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 315 (2025), then lost to Ian Machado Garry and Gabriel Bonfim.
Belarus national football team
Belarus national football team (men's), ABFF-governed, UEFA/FIFA member since 1992-93; debut 1992 vs Ukraine; never qualified for a World Cup or Euro; plays UEFA home matches at neutral venues since March 2022; coach Viktar Hančarenka.
Belarusian Premier League
Belarusian Premier League (Вышэйшая ліга, Vysheyshaya Liga), also BETERA Premier League: top football division of Belarus, founded 1992, spring-autumn single-year seasons, 16 teams; kept playing through COVID-19 in 2020; BATE Borisov its only Champions League group-stage club.
Belasica
FK Belasica (ФК Беласица Струмица), nicknamed Kenguri, is a football club from Strumica, North Macedonia, founded 13 August 1922; twice First League vice-champion (2001/02, 2002/03) with UEFA Cup play, now in the Second League.
Belaying
Belaying: the climbing technique of holding, feeding, and arresting a rope to protect a climber. Covers friction vs assisted-braking devices (ATC, GriGri), PBUS technique, force figures in kN, failure modes, and 2024 auto-belay recall.
Belayneh Densimo
Belayneh Densimo (also Dinsamo), Ethiopian marathon runner born 1965, set the marathon world record 2:06:50 at Rotterdam on 17 April 1988; it stood until 1998, and he won Rotterdam four times.
Belfast Wolves
The Belfast Wolves are a Belfast-based professional cricket franchise in the European T20 Premier League, captained and co-owned by Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell; its first season, 2026, was played entirely away from Belfast.
Belgian Grand Prix
Belgian Grand Prix (Grand Prix de Belgique), Formula One race at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Ardennes, Belgium; first run 1925, championship round since 1950; 7.004 km, 44 laps; Schumacher most wins with six.
Belgian Pro League
Belgian Pro League (Jupiler Pro League), Belgium's top football division run by the Pro League. 16 clubs with play-offs through 2025-26; 18 clubs, 34 matchdays, no play-offs from 2026-27.
Belgisch olympisch en interfederaal comite
Belgisch Olympisch en Interfederaal Comité (BOIC, COIB), Belgium's National Olympic Committee, founded 1906, IOC-recognized, umbrella of 86 federations, president Jean-Michel Saive, merging with Paralympic committee in 2027.
Belgium national football team
Belgium national football team, the Red Devils (Rode Duivels), RBFA-run men's team; 1920 Olympic gold, 2018 World Cup third place, 15 World Cups, former FIFA No. 1, 2026 quarter-finalists.
Belgrano
Club Atlético Belgrano, El Pirata, a Córdoba football club founded 19 March 1905, plays at El Gigante de Alberdi, won its first Argentine top-flight title, the 2026 Apertura, against River Plate.
Belinda Bencic
Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player born 1997 in Flawil; Olympic singles gold medalist Tokyo 2020, former world No. 4, ten WTA singles titles, 2019 US Open semifinalist, and 2025 comeback after maternity leave.
Belinda Stowell
Belinda Stowell, born 1971 in Zimbabwe, is an Australian 470 class sailor who won Olympic gold with Jenny Armstrong at Sydney 2000, the first Olympic sailing medal for an Australian woman, later raced at Athens 2004 and London 2012, and became WAIS head sailing coach.