Bodybuilding was introduced as a World Games sport at the 1981 World Games in Santa Clara, California.
Famous quotes containing the words world and/or games:
“Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women. The ultimate victory, the ultimate victory of tomorrow is with democracy; and true democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“The rules of drinking games are taken more serious than the rules of war.”
—Chinese proverb.