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Great Britain Olympic football team

The Great Britain Olympic football team is the side entered by the British Olympic Association under the Team GB brand, a three-time Olympic gold medalist in 1900, 1908, and 1912.

Great Eastern Steeplechase

The Great Eastern Steeplechase, also known as the Onkaparinga Steeplechase, is a jumps horse race first run in 1876 at Oakbank Racecourse in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia.

Great Lakes Valley Conference

Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC), NCAA Division II athletic conference founded 1978 in Indianapolis; 15 full-time members across four Midwest states, 27 championship sports, 23 NCAA D-II national titles, commissioner Jim Naumovich.

Great Northern Steeplechase

Great Northern Steeplechase, also Great New Zealand Steeplechase, a New Zealand jumps horse race first run in 1885 at Ellerslie over about 6,400 m and 25 fences; renamed and moved to Te Aroha in 2025.

Great Strahov Stadium

Great Strahov Stadium (Velký strahovský stadion), also Masaryk Stadium, Prague: largest stadium ever built by field area (62,876 m², 310.5 × 202.5 m), capacity 250,000; built 1926 for Sokol slets, later Spartakiáds and concerts, now Sparta Prague training ground.

Great western trail

Great Western Trail is a 2016 Alexander Pfister strategy board game for 2-4 players, 75-150 minutes, in which players drive cattle from Texas to Kansas City using deck building, hand management, and route optimization; a 2021 second edition added a solo mode.

Greater Bay Area Cultural And Sports Centre Stadium

Greater Bay Area Cultural and Sports Centre Stadium (大湾区文化体育中心), or Greater Bay Stadium: 60,000-seat Zaha Hadid-designed stadium in Nansha, Guangzhou, opened 23 August 2025, built 2023–2025 for over 8 billion yuan.

Greater Western Sydney Giants

Greater Western Sydney Giants (GWS GIANTS), AFL club, 18th licence, debuted 2012, based Western Sydney with Canberra games; orange and charcoal, 2019 Grand Final loss, no premiership, Kevin Sheedy first coach.

Greco-Roman wrestling

Greco-Roman wrestling: Olympic amateur style, also called classic or French wrestling, banning holds below the waist and leg use; two 3-minute periods, 8-point technical superiority, six Olympic weight classes.

Greece (organization)

Hellenic Olympic Committee (Ελληνική Ολυμπιακή Επιτροπή), Greece's National Olympic Committee, founded Athens 24 November 1894; organized the 1896 first modern Olympics, runs the Olympia flame ceremony and International Olympic Academy; president Isidoros Kouvelos since 2025.

Greece men's national basketball team

The Greece men's national basketball team, also known as the Greek national basketball team, represents Greece in international basketball, winning EuroBasket in 1987 and 2005 and World Cup silver in 2006.

Greece national football team

The Greece national football team (Greek: Εθνική Ελλάδος), run by the Hellenic Football Federation, won UEFA EURO 2004 by beating hosts Portugal 1-0 in the Lisbon final.

GreedFall

GreedFall is a 2019 action role-playing game by the French studio Spiders, set in a fantasy world inspired by the 17th century, where the diplomat De Sardet seeks a cure for a plague.

GreedFall: The Dying World

GreedFall: The Dying World, originally GreedFall 2, is a 2026 prequel RPG by Spiders and Nacon set three years before GreedFall, casting a Teer Fradee native in Gacane with real-time-with-pause tactical combat; launched amid Nacon's insolvency and Spiders' shutdown.

Greek Football Cup (Κύπελλο Ελλάδας)

The Greek Football Cup, founded in 1931, is Greece's annual knockout football competition; Olympiacos is its most successful club with 27 titles.

Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers, NFL franchise founded 1919 by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun; only publicly owned NFL team (Green Bay Packers, Inc., 1935), record 13 championships, home Lambeau Field since 1957.

Green Bay Packers, Inc.

Green Bay Packers, Inc. (Green Bay Football Corp.) is the NFL's only publicly owned, nonprofit franchise, community-owned since 1923, with about 539,000 dividend-free shareholders, six stock sales, and a grandfathered exemption from NFL ownership rules.

Green Boots

Green Boots is the nickname for a climber's body in a limestone cave at about 8,500 m on Everest's northeast ridge, a landmark since the 1996 disaster; long thought to be Tsewang Paljor, Indian authorities now identify him as Dorje Morup and plan recovery.

Green Monster

The Green Monster is the 37-foot-2-inch left field wall at Fenway Park, Boston, built in 1912 to block free views from Lansdowne Street, rebuilt in concrete in 1934, and painted green in 1947.

Greenall Whitley Gold Cup

The Greenall Whitley Gold Cup was a handicap steeplechase run at Haydock Park in Merseyside, England, during the 1990s, named for the Greenall Whitley brewery.

Greenfield International Stadium

Greenfield International Stadium (The Sports Hub, Karyavattom) is a 55,000-seat multi-purpose cricket and football stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, opened in 2015 for the 35th National Games and India's 50th international cricket venue in 2017.

Greenock Morton F.C.

Greenock Morton F.C. (Morton, The Ton), Scottish Championship club founded 4 October 1874 in Greenock, playing at Cappielow Park since 1879; Scottish Cup winners 1922, fan-owned via Morton Club Together since 2022.

Greensboro Swarm

Greensboro Swarm, NBA G League team owned and operated by the Charlotte Hornets since 2016-17, based in Greensboro, North Carolina; won its first G League championship in 2025-26, sweeping the Stockton Kings.

Greg Barton

Greg Barton (Gregory Mark Barton, born 1959), American sprint kayaker from Jackson, Michigan; two 1988 Olympic golds (K1/K2 1000 m, K2 with Norm Bellingham), bronzes in 1984 and 1992; founder of Epic Kayaks.

Greg Bell

Greg Bell (1930-2025), American long jumper, 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold medalist (7.83 m Olympic record), three-time AAU and two-time NCAA champion, later a dentist in Logansport, Indiana.

Greg Biffle

Greg Biffle (1969-2025), American NASCAR driver from Vancouver, Washington; first driver to win both Truck (2000) and Xfinity (2002) championships, 19 Cup wins with Roush, 2005 runner-up, 75 Greatest Drivers honoree, died in a 2025 Statesville plane crash.

Greg Brooks Jr.

Greg Brooks Jr., Harvey, Louisiana safety who played for Arkansas and LSU, was LSU's 2023 captain before a September 2023 medulloblastoma diagnosis; his negligence lawsuit against LSU remains pending.

Greg Buckingham

Greg Buckingham (Gregory Fenton Buckingham, 1945-1990), American swimmer, 1968 Olympic silver medalist in the 200 m individual medley, world-record holder in the 200 m and 400 m medley, Stanford NCAA champion, brother of Lindsey Buckingham.

Greg Chappell

Greg Chappell (Gregory Stephen Chappell, born 1948, Unley), Australian batsman and captain 1975-77 and 1979-83; 7,110 Test runs at 53.86, World Series Cricket, 1981 underarm incident, India coach 2005-07.

Greg Crippen

Greg Crippen (born 2002) is an American football center from Northborough, Massachusetts who played five seasons at Michigan, started all 13 games in 2025, and signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in May 2026.